The Colfax Massacre The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruct...
ISBN: 9780195393088 | 0195393082
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 9/24/2009
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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 | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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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