What the records say
- When
- 28 Sep 1868
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 30.53° N, 92.09° W
- Description
- Massacre in the United States
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Opelousas massacre, one of the bloodiest massacres of the Reconstruction era in the United States”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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