The Colfax Massacre Ye Olde Crime

Lindsay and Emily from Pineapple Pizza Podcast discuss The Colfax Massacre, as well as why the Reconstruction Era , that there’s a big difference between a “riot” and a “massacre,” and how to not to whitewash history.
Information pulled from the following sources:

2024 Free Speech Center article by John R. Vile

2023 NBC News article by Claretta Bellamy

2023 Smithsonian Magazine article by Danny Lewis

2020 Daily Kos article by Denise Oliver Velez

Bill of Rights Institute article by Julie Silverbrook

Britannica

Colfax Memorial

History Channel

United States Senate article

Wikipedia

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