[PDF.77wo] The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

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 | #300275 in Books |  2009-03-31 |  2009-03-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.3 x5.50l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An important book in the context of not to understand the past presents the danger of reliving our mistakes|By jdvb books|After 30 plus years of visiting relatives in Colfax and seeing the monument that still stands to the "Colfax Riot" with what to me was peculiar wording: "April 13, 1873 marked the end of carpetbag misrule in the South" I got this book to try to better unders|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . The Colfax Massacre, a buried episode in American history, took place on an Easter Sunday afternoon in 1873. Within four hours, at least eighty black American men had been brutally murdered by white vigilantes in Colfax, La. Jou

"Absorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller."―Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book Review

Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex–Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty African Americans who had occupied a courthouse.

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