Colfax Massacre 
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2/21/2021
Don't Defend Democracy With Half-Truths About the Past
by Brook Thomas
Although the Capitol riots raised deep concern about the rule of law, there is a deeper challenge ahead of the nation: to understand and change the undemocratic aspects of our foundational law and refuse half-measures in the name of unity.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/28/2020
The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists
by William Briggs and Jon Krakauer
The Colfax Massacre, sparked by white supremacists' refusal to accept a state election result, set in motion a series of legal rulings that made it virtually impossible for the federal government to prosecute civil rights violations by private citizens, ensuring that mob violence and racial oppression would continue.
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SOURCE: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
8/27/2020
Amazing Disgrace: Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on Confederate Monuments (video)
The humorist examines the controversy over removing Confederate monuments and how we remember and teach history.
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SOURCE: The Root
7-29-13
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: What Was the Colfax Massacre?
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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