Timeline Sunday 13 April 1873

Events on Sunday 13 April 1873 1

• 1873 Colfax Massacre Reconstruction-era mass killing in Louisiana On 13 April 1873, a white paramilitary force attacked freedmen and Republican officeholders who had occupied the Grant Parish courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana, killing dozens of Black men after they had surrendered. The subsequent Supreme Court case United States v. Cruikshank weakened federal protection of civil rights for decades.