Opelousas Massacre

            In September, 1868, a teacher named Emerson Bentley found a note on his school door.  It read:  “E.B. Beware!  KKK”.  The note included a coffin, skull and bones, and a bloody dagger.  The 18-year-old Bentley had come south from Ohio to Opelousas, Louisiana to teach at a Freedmen’s Bureau Read more…