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The Colfax Massacre The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruct...

ISBN: 9780195393088 | 0195393082
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 9/24/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging white supremacists. The most deadly incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but extinguished the campaign for racial equality. LeeAnna Keith's The Colfax Massacre offers a vivid account of this decisive event. Drawing on a huge body of documents, including eyewitness accounts of ... MORE
Introduction: On Bones and Their Markers
Alabama Fever
The Philosopher
The Fall
Led by a Damned Puppy
A Town Called Fight
Carnival of the Animals
Battle of the Colfax Courthouse
Voyage of the Ozark
Getting Away with Murder
The Legacy of Cruikshank
N... MORE
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LeeAnna Keith teaches history at Collegiate School in New York City. Her writing has appeared in The Dictionary of American History and The Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations.

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