Thibodaux (LA) Massacre
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The 1873 Colfax Massacre Crippled the Reconstruction Era
One of the worst incidents of racial violence after the Civil War set the stage for segregation
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An etching of black families gathering the dead after the Colfax Massacre published in Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1873. (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)
By Danny Lewis
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The Reconstruction period that followed America's Civil War was one of the worst, most violent eras in American history. During that time, thousands of African-Americans were killed by domestic terrorists like the Ku Klux Klan who tried to reinforce antebellum policies of white supremacy. For many historians, one of the worst examples of this violence occurred 143 years ago today: the Colfax Massacre of 1873.
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Opelousas Massacre
On this date in 1868, the Opelousas massacre occurred. That city in Louisiana was the site where local Blacks lost their lives by violent whites (many of them Confederate veterans and prominent citizens).
The slaughter started when three local whites beat up an 18-year old man named Emerson Bentley, a white editor (and non-Louisianan) of the local Republican newspaper and a teacher with the Freedmen's Bureau. Reacting to Bentley's beating,
https://aaregistry.org/story/massacre-in-opelousas/
On this date in 1868, the Opelousas massacre occurred. That city in Louisiana was the site where local Blacks lost their lives by violent whites (many of them Confederate veterans and prominent citizens).
The slaughter started when three local whites beat up an 18-year old man named Emerson Bentley, a white editor (and non-Louisianan) of the local Republican newspaper and a teacher with the Freedmen's Bureau. Reacting to Bentley's beating,
https://aaregistry.org/story/massacre-in-opelousas/
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Listen up maggots! And that's an order!
This was going on in all of those traitor states. Like the man whose name is on North Carolina's football stadium, and family is still prominent with the university, led one of these in North Carolina.
https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/09/kenan-stadium-wilmington-massacre-0927
Around thirty UNC academic and residence buildings have names tied to white supremacy — but it doesn't stop there.
Kenan Memorial Stadium is named after William Rand Kenan Sr., the commander of a white supremacist unit that murdered at least 25 Black people in the Wilmington Massacre of 1898.
Many think Kenan Stadium is named after Kenan’s son, William Rand Kenan Jr., a businessman, philanthropist and UNC graduate who left most of his $95 million fortune to UNC when he died. After a large donation, he requested the stadium be named to memorialize his parents. The stadium's plaque memorializing them makes no mention of Kenan’s involvement in the massacre.
Taking place on Nov. 10, 1898, the Wilmington Massacre was a coup planned by a white militia which killed anywhere from 60 to 300 Black residents, destroyed many Black-owned businesses and chased the majority of Black residents and politicians out of town. The militia also overthrew the local government, to replace the Black and white leaders from the Fusionist and Republican parties, with white democrats.
https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/09/kenan-stadium-wilmington-massacre-0927
Around thirty UNC academic and residence buildings have names tied to white supremacy — but it doesn't stop there.
Kenan Memorial Stadium is named after William Rand Kenan Sr., the commander of a white supremacist unit that murdered at least 25 Black people in the Wilmington Massacre of 1898.
Many think Kenan Stadium is named after Kenan’s son, William Rand Kenan Jr., a businessman, philanthropist and UNC graduate who left most of his $95 million fortune to UNC when he died. After a large donation, he requested the stadium be named to memorialize his parents. The stadium's plaque memorializing them makes no mention of Kenan’s involvement in the massacre.
Taking place on Nov. 10, 1898, the Wilmington Massacre was a coup planned by a white militia which killed anywhere from 60 to 300 Black residents, destroyed many Black-owned businesses and chased the majority of Black residents and politicians out of town. The militia also overthrew the local government, to replace the Black and white leaders from the Fusionist and Republican parties, with white democrats.