In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks.
When it was over, at least forty-eight men--an overwhelming majority of them black--lay dead and more than two hundred had been wou.
Words were exchanged, shots rang out, and within minutes a Riot erupted with unrestrained fury.
On July 30, a procession of black suffrage supporters pushed through an angry throng of hostile whites.
In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks