What the records say
- When
- Aug 1874
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 11
- Coordinates
- 32.02° N, 93.34° W
- Description
- attack by the White League on Republican officeholders and freedmen in Coushatta, Louisiana, United States
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Coushatta massacre
Nineteenth-century American massacre
The Coushatta massacre was an attack in August 1874 by members of the White League—a white supremacist paramilitary organization composed of white Southern Democrats—on Republican officeholders and freedmen in Coushatta, Louisiana. They assassinated six white Republicans and five to 20 freedmen who were witnesses.
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