It was high noon on Easter 1873 when the white mob came riding into Colfax. Five months earlier, Louisiana had held its second election since the end of the Civil War and the beginning of black ...

For many historians, one of the worst examples of this violence occurred 150 years ago: the Colfax Massacre of 1873. Immediately after the end of the war, different factions began fighting over power.

I decided I'd stop and see the famous Colfax Riot cannon, envisioning, somehow, a grand old armament of the kind I had seen in abundance at West Point and a half dozen Civil War battlefields.

And so the Colfax war never made its way into novels and movies. Not that the Colfax County War’s notorious gunman Clay Allison isn’t counted among the West’s bad guys.

After the Civil War, Colfax became ensnared in a vicious political melee between abolitionist Republicans who supported Reconstruction and recalcitrant, pro-slavery Democrats determined to redeem ...

COLFAX, La. – The shiny new black marble monument dedicated to the victims of the Colfax Massacre sits next to the railroad tracks on Eighth Street, not far from where the atrocity took place on ...