Between 1865 and 1950, over 6,500 Black people were lynched in the United States, including at least 615 in Louisiana and 6 in Lafayette Parish, as White mobs, often aided by official indifference or complicity, used racial terror to enforce White political, social, and economic control after the Civil War. In Carencro, Louisiana, two Black men, Louis Senegal and Antoine Domingue, were brutally lynched within an 11-year period. On March 24, 1896, 500 White men abducted Louis Senegal, also referred to as Louis Sinclair, from the Carencro jail and hanged him after he was arrested for alleged sexual impropriety with a White woman, while police left his cell unguarded despite knowing the mob's intentions. On November 24, 1906, during a reign of terror against Black residents, a mob of 100 prominent White farmers identified as Whitecaps seized control of Carencro's main roads, attacked Black travelers, and ambushed Antoine Domingue as he walked home at night, beat him with a club, robbed him of his horse and buggy, and shot him to death. Black people fled the parish in large numbers afterward, and although some mob members were identified, no one was ever held accountable for either killing.