Please join us on Sunday (27 August 2023) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.
Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.
We will cover “The Colfax Massacre: The Beginning of the End of Reconstruction.”
We will view and discuss video from a recent meeting of Together Louisiana’s Rapid Response where this group is reading Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann.
The prologue of the book tells the story of the Colfax Massacre (erroneously called the Colfax Riot in the white Southern retelling of the story) depicted in the monuments that were erected in the area.
The video features Rev. Avery Hamilton who grew up in Colfax but knew nothing of the true story of the massacre until well into adulthood when he learned the story of his own ancestor who was one of the first to die in the massacre.
We will hear the story of how Rev. Hamilton not only learned his own family’s story but met a descendant of the perpetrators of the massacre who has worked with him to get the true story out and to build a more appropriate monument to those who died.