Who heard of the Colfax Massacre?

[TreasonousBastard]

This is a new one to me, but it's a bad one.



Easter Sunday, 1873 around 300 hundred KKK, White League, and ex-Confederate troops attacked a successful Black settlement in Louisiana. Up to 150 were murdered, with only 3 whites killed.

https://goodfaithmedia.org/the-shameful-easter-massacre-you-never-heard-about/

[niyad]

1. Thank you for sharing this hidden history.

[smirkymonkey]

2. I had never heard of it until now.

How little we know about the truth of this nation’s real history. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[abqtommy]

3. Thank you. Bookmarked it...

[sir pball]

4. You should be aware of it, if for nothing besides the resultant court case

The convictions from the massacre were overturned by SCOTUS in United States v. Cruukshank - the case where the Justices decided that the Bill.of Rights was explicitly *not* incorporated - that did not apply to States nor private individuals, but rather only the Federal government.

Flowing from that ruling, it was also found that since the Federal government wasn't involved, Federal law had no force - leaving the newly freed Black populace at the mercy of State courts and legislatures. I don't need to get into how that worked out....

Not exactly our nations brightest moment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Cruikshank

[Karadeniz]

5. Thanks... We need to know!