New Orleans massacre of 1866

When

30 Jul 1866

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

34

Coordinates

29.98° N, 90.08° W

Description

racially motivated massacre of July 1866

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Confederate attack on constitutional convention

The New Orleans massacre of 1866 occurred on July 30, when a peaceful demonstration of mostly Black freedmen was set upon by a mob of white rioters, many of whom had been soldiers of the recently defeated Confederate States of America, leading to a full-scale massacre. The violence erupted outside the Mechanics Institute, site of a reconvened Louisiana Constitutional Convention.

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