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Summary Of: Colfax Massacre

the Colfax massacre taught many lessons... With the publicity about the Colfax massacre and this ruling... The Colfax Massacre had the highest recorded number of fatalities of a single event of mass racial violence... The Colfax Massacre is among the events of Reconstruction and late 19th century history which has received new...

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