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

Name: Colfax Massacre The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction
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ISBN: 9780195310269

ISBN-10: 0195310268

ISBN-13: 9780195310269

Edition: 2008

Authors: LeeAnna Keith

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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 is the first full-length book to tell the history of this decisive event. Drawing on a huge body of documents, including eyewitness accounts of the massacre, as well as newly discovered evidence from the site itself, Keith explores the racial tensions that led to…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/28/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 8.30" wide x 5.70" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.946



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


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index