After the massacre, labor organizing among sugar workers essentially was suspended; plantation workers had few alternatives as white Democrats passed laws for disenfranchisement of blacks, racial segregation and other Jim Crow rules.
After the massacre, labor organizing among sugar workers essentially was suspended; plantation workers returned to work under the owners' terms. White Democrats, who dominated the state legislature, soon passed laws for disenfranchisement of blacks, racial segregation and other Jim Crow rules.