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The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction (Reprint Edition) by Leeanna Keith Paperback, 219 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-539308-2 / 0195393082 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-539308-8 / 9780195393088 On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging white supremacists. The most deadly incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax |