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COLFAX, La. – The shiny new black marble monument dedicated to the victims of the Colfax Massacre sits next to the railroad tracks on Eighth Street, not far from where the atrocity took place on April 13, 1873.
“The monument is a reminder of the power of memory and a sacrifice made by those who came before us and the ongoing struggle for a more just and equitable society,” the Rev. Avery Hamilton told a crowd gathered for the monument’s dedication ceremony last week, in the small community about 120 miles southeast of Shreveport, Louisiana.
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