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| Coordinates | 31°31′12″N92°41′48″W / 31.51989°N 92.69663°W Coordinates: 31°31′12″N92°41′48″W / 31.51989°N 92.69663°W |
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| City | Colfax |
| County | Grant Parish |
| State/province | Louisiana |
| ZIP Code | 71417 |
| Country | United States |
Grant Parish Detention Center is a parish jail in Grant Parish, Louisiana.
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Rapides Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 131,613. The parish seat is Alexandria, which developed along the Red River of the South. Rapides is the French spelling of "rapids" and is pronounced ra-PEEDS. The parish was created in 1807 after the United States acquired this territory in the Louisiana Purchase.
Grant Parish is a parish located in the North Central portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,309. The parish seat is Colfax. The parish was founded in 1869.
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The Colfax massacre, sometimes referred to by the euphemism Colfax riot, occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the seat of Grant Parish. An estimated 62-153 black militia men were killed while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers, members of the Ku Klux Klan and the White League. Three white men also died in the confrontation.
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The White League, also known as the White Man's League, was a white paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen into not voting and politically organizing. Its first chapter was formed in Grant Parish, Louisiana, and neighboring parishes and was made up of many of the Confederate veterans who had participated in the Colfax massacre in April 1873. Chapters were soon founded in New Orleans and other areas of the state.
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grant Parish, Louisiana.
Leonard Ray Hataway, known as Pop Hataway, is a Democrat who served as the sheriff of his native Grant Parish in north central Louisiana from 1976 to 2008. Upon his defeat for a ninth four-year term in 2007, Hataway was appointed by Republican Governor Bobby Jindal to the influential Louisiana Board of Pardons and Paroles. He left the sheriff's office six months early and was succeeded on an interim basis by Preston Hall Mosley (1954-2018).