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

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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 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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keith, LeeAnna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Temas:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1850-1900.
Geschichte 1873.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Louisiana > Colfax.
Massacres > Louisiana > Colfax > History > 19th century.
Violence > Louisiana > Colfax > History > 19th century.
Racism > Louisiana > Colfax > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Crimes against > Louisiana > Colfax > History > 19th century.
Contested elections > Louisiana > Grant Parish > History > 19th century.
Élections > Contestation > Louisiane > Grant > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans > Crimes against
Contested elections
Massacres
Politics and government
Race relations
Racism
Violence
Massaker.
Rassenbeziehung.
Unruhen.
Colfax (La.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Grant Parish (La.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Grant Parish (La.) > Politics and government > 19th century.
Grant (Louis.) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Louisiana > Colfax
Louisiana > Grant Parish
United States
Colfax.
Südstaaten (USA)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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