Editing Tensas Parish, Louisiana (section)

===Reconstruction===
During and after the Reconstruction era, white Democrats acted to suppress black and Republican voting in the state and in this parish with its large black majority. They enforced [[Jim Crow]] laws and rules through intimidation and violence, including [[Lynching in the United States|lynchings]].

From 1877 to 1950, there were 30 [[Lynching in the United States|lynchings of Black people]] in Tensas Parish, most in the decades around the turn of the 20th century; Tensas was among the four parishes in Louisiana with the highest number of lynchings in this period, and Louisiana was among the states with the highest number of such murders.<ref>[https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-second-edition-supplement-by-county.pdf ''Lynching in America, Second Edition: Supplement by County''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627005306/https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-second-edition-supplement-by-county.pdf |date=June 27, 2018 }}, p. 4, Equal Justice Initiative, Mobile, AL, 2015</ref>

But from 1878 through 1920, the Mississippi Delta area of northern Louisiana legally executed more blacks than did any other part of the state, after they had been convicted by [[all-white juries]]. For instance, between 1880 and 1920, twelve persons were executed in Tensas Parish, at least seven of them black.<ref name="pfeifer">[https://books.google.com/books?id=zAGwb3G6soMC&q=Tangipahoa+parish Michael James Pfeifer, ''Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947''], University of Illinois Press, 2004, pp. 72–73</ref>