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The Colfax massacre : the untold story of Black power, White terror, and the death of Reconstruction /

On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia were slain by rampaging white supremacists. The deadliest incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but exti...

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Основен автор: Keith, LeeAnna.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=216007
Подобни документи: Print version:: Colfax massacre.
Съдържание:
  • 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.