30 July 1866
Racial violenceBook sources
The New Orleans massacre attacks Black political participation
New Orleans, Louisiana
Police and white mobs attacked people associated with a reconvened constitutional convention and its Black supporters. The convention’s supporters sought changes that included Black male suffrage; the attack killed delegates and supporters.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
The convention’s disputed legal status did not justify the massacre. This entry concerns the July 1866 attack, not later Reconstruction conflicts in Louisiana.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 9, pp. 203; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- National Park Service: the New Orleans massacre ↗