Title: Unpunished murder
Description: On Easter Sunday of 1873, just eight years after the Civil War ended, a band of white supremacists marched into Grant Parish, Louisiana, and massacred over one hundred unarmed African Americans. The court case that followed reached the highest court in the land. Yet, following one of the most ghastly incidents of mass murder in American history, not one person was convicted.
Subjects: United States. Supreme Court, United States, Massacres, Constitutional law, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), African Americans, History, United states, supreme court, United states, supreme court, juvenile literature, African americans, African americans, juvenile literature, Reconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877), Reconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877), juvenile literature, Louisiana, juvenile literature
Places: United States, Louisiana, Colfax (Louisiana)
Time periods: 19th century