Grant Parish, Louisiana
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Grant Parish is a parish located in the North Central portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,169. The parish seat is Colfax. The parish was founded in 186
Grant Parish Courthouse in Colfax
The Grant Parish Library is located near the courthouse.
The Grant Parish Sheriff's Office is located behind the courthouse.
Colfax Reunion Nursing and Rehabilitation Home at 366 Webb Smith Drive in Colfax serves all of Grant Parish.
White League
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The White League, also known as the White Man's League, was a white supremacist paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen into not voting
Grant Parish, Louisiana
…from Grant and neighboring parishes. The following year, Nash gathered many of the white militia members as the basis of the first chapter of the White League. Other chapters quickly grew up across the state. The White League's organized violence in support of the Democratic Party included widespread intimidation…
White League and Ku Klux Klan alliance, in illustration, by Thomas Nast, in Harper's Weekly, October 24, 1874
A sword-wielding Columbia in an 1874 Thomas Nast cartoon, protecting an injured black man from being beaten by a mob of White Leaguers
Julie Hayden, a 17-year-old Tennessee schoolteacher who was murdered by the White League in 1874.
"White League Waltz", a song written to celebrate the Battle of Liberty Place