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History Matters: The Colfax Riot

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published March 5, 2019 at 6:45 AM CST
Published in Harper's Weekly May 10, 1873, page 397 after the Colfax massacre in Colfax on April 13, 1873.
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Airs Tueday, March 5, 2018, at 7:45 a.m. Commentator Gary Joiner looks back to April 13, 1873 in Grant Parish Louisiana to examine the events that led to the The Colfax Riot.
 
History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.
 

 
 
 
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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”
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