A Louisiana town is honoring the victims of a violent massacre that left dozens of Black people dead 150 years ago with a new memorial, replacing a racist historical marker.
Avery Hamilton, left, and Charles Dean Woods stand next to the new monument honoring Black residents killed in the Colfax Massacre during 1873.Exactly 150 years after a violent massacre left dozens of Black people dead, the small Louisiana town where it happened is honoring its victims with a new memorial replacing a racist historical marker.
Avery Hamilton and Charles Dean Woods, leaders of the Colfax Memorial Organization, led an initiative to erect the monument, which lists 57 Black people identified in the mass killing by the racist mob on April 13, 1873. It also features artwork reflecting the Black experience during Reconstruction by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, a Black visual artist.
“I was just like, ‘What do I do about this?’” Woods, who lives in Houston, said. “And when I finally found out about the marker being there, I went to Colfax and saw it in person and just, you know, tried to figure out what to do.”Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images file
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