The ballad of Robert Charles searching for the 1900 New Orleans riot /

"For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. After an altercation with police on a New Orleans street, Charles killed two police officers and fled. During a manhunt that extended for days, violent white mobs roamed the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prince, K. Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Charles, Robert, > 1865?-1900.
1800-1899
Race riots > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Émeutes raciales > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Race riots.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Song Forgotten
  • Prologue: A Narrative History of the 1900 New Orleans Riot
  • Setting
  • Silence
  • Riot
  • Reckoning
  • Remembrance
  • Epilogue: Ghosts of Robert Charles.

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