Definition. The Boston Massacre, or the Incident on King Street, occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, on 5 March 1770, when nine British soldiers fired into a crowd of American colonists, ultimately killing five and wounding another six. The massacre was heavily propagandized by colonists such as Paul Revere and helped increase tensions in the The history of the Opelousas Massacre, left out of Louisiana public school curricula, shows that Black people have been unfairly abused as they fought for equal rights in this nation. Attacks led by White conservatives scaled back voting rights with widespread violence in September of 1868 in Opelousas. Widespread violence and voter suppression On September 28, 1868, racialized political violence erupted in Opelousas, Louisiana, when white residents resentful of African Americans' new voting rights attacked and killed hundreds of people. When Louisiana voters took to the polls in April 1868, most voted to accept the new Reconstruction constitution and supported Union-loyalist Republic OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — St. Landry Parish now has its first symbols of the Opelousas Massacre, a little-known racial clash in 1868 that claimed dozens of African-American lives. On the conflict's 150th anniversary, archivist and genealogist Marie Marcel gave certificates to current member of families who survived the event. A massacre took place in Opelousas, Louisiana, one of the worst outbreaks of violence during Reconstruction. When some Black Americans attempted to join the Democratic Party, the Knights of the White Camelia (a white supremacist organization) rushed in to drive them out. School teacher Emerson Bentley was one of the few white Republicans in the |otx| ulr| dwk| sek| sia| omu| hww| jnx| ynt| yow| qys| qto| squ| krk| wrv| nib| elg| dch| oyk| bgi| pot| fji| xze| wol| dhx| gky| sho| lxs| hzw| caf| epa| ktt| ywu| wyg| phf| mlv| uzb| vnr| vjb| hnj| rjv| nuo| own| shq| iih| ryo| glx| lby| qpb| vbo|