Robert Goldman . Reconstruction and Black Suffrage : Losing the Vote in Reese and
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When the largest peacetime massacre of AfricanAmericans in nineteenth-century America took place on Easter Sunday, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the U.S. government possessed the tools to prosecute the murderers. e First Enforcement Act, passed sixty-two days aer the ratification of the Fieenth Amendment, prohibited private individuals, as well as state officials, from taking any of a series of specific actions aimed at prohibiting or discouraging anyone qualified to vote in a state or local election from voting or from performing any prerequisites to voting. Aer all, what was the use of removing the word “white” from state suffrage laws if the states disfranchised blacks by other means or offered no protection to African-Americans who sought to vote or to assume offices to which they were legally elected? And the law clearly applied to the “ColfaxMassacre” of at least 105 black men, about 50 of whom where executed aer surrendering to the well-organized group of about 300 armed whites, because the massacre was the direct result of a disputed election. Aer an election in which they had almost surely won a majority of the votes, local black Republican candidates had aempted a peaceful occupation of the Grant Parish courthouse. eir slaughter was not a conventional assault that a local or state government could be expected to handle, but the climactic event in a struggle for control of local government–Columbus Nash, the Democratic candidate for sheriff, led the white mob.
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