Colfax Massacre

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf historical event
gptkbp:aftermath increased_violence_against_African_Americans
gptkbp:associated_with the Ku Klux Klan
gptkbp:casualties White supremacists
gptkbp:celebrates historical markers and memorials
gptkbp:context Reconstruction Era
gptkbp:date April 13, 1873
gptkbp:documentedIn historical accounts and studies
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Colfax Massacre
gptkbp:impact led_to_the_enforcement_of_Jim_Crow_laws
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:involved Republicans_and_Democrats
gptkbp:is_part_of American_history
gptkbp:is_studied_in gptkb:U.S._Congress
gptkbp:is_used_in books and documentaries
gptkbp:led_to the_establishment_of_the_Enforcement_Acts
gptkbp:location gptkb:Colfax,_Louisiana
gptkbp:notableFigures gptkb:General_Edward_R._S._Canby
gptkb:General_Philip_Sheridan
gptkb:Governor_Henry_C._Warmoth
gptkb:C._C._Antoine
gptkb:James_A._McCulloch
gptkb:Sheriff_William_A._McCulloch
gptkb:William_Ward
John A. McEnery
U.S._Army_troops
African_American_militia
gptkbp:outcome no convictions for the perpetrators
gptkbp:reflects the_struggle_for_African_American_rights
gptkbp:relatedEvent the 1874 New Orleans Riot
gptkbp:resultedIn deaths of approximately 150 African Americans
gptkbp:significance highlighted_racial_tensions_in_the_South
gptkbp:triggerType federal_intervention_in_Southern_states