On the Laps of Gods The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation

Name: On the Laps of Gods The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation
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ISBN: 9780307339836

ISBN-10: 0307339831

ISBN-13: 9780307339836

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert. Whitaker

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They shot them down like rabbits . . . September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. During the previous three months, racial fighting had erupted in twenty-five cities. And deep in the Arkansas Delta, black sharecroppers were meeting in a humble wooden church, forming a union and making plans to sue their white landowners, who for years had cheated them out of their fair share of the cotton crop. A car pulled up outside the church . . . What happened next has long been shrouded in controversy. In this heartbreaking but ultimately triumphant story of courage and will, journalist Robert Whitaker carefully documentsand exposesone of the worst racial…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.14" wide x 8.02" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English