Christopher Columbus Nash
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Christopher Columbus Nash
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Christopher Columbus Nash was a Louisiana merchant and Democratic sheriff. In 1873, Nash led a company of white militiamen in the Colfax Massacre to take the courthouse in Colfax, from armed African-Americans. Three white men were killed; the number of African-Americans killed is estimated to have been between 60 and 150. Nash participated in the formation of the White League, a white supremacist organization that claimed to defend a "hereditary civilization and Christianity menaced by a stupid
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American businessman and politician (1838–1922)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus_Nash
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2024-02-17T00:29:44Z
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