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

Main Author: Keith, LeeAnna.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Louisiana > Colfax.
Massacres > History > 19th century. > Louisiana > Colfax
Violence > History > 19th century. > Louisiana > Colfax
Racism > History > 19th century. > Louisiana > Colfax
African Americans > Crimes against > 19th century. > Louisiana > History > Colfax
Contested elections > History > 19th century. > Louisiana > Grant Parish
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
African Americans > Crimes against.
Contested elections.
Massacres.
Politics and government
Race relations.
Racism.
Violence.
Massaker.
Rassenbeziehung.
Unruhen.
Colfax (La.) > Race relations > 19th century. > History
Grant Parish (La.) > Race relations > 19th century. > History
Grant Parish (La.) > Politics and government > 19th century.
Louisiana > Colfax.
Louisiana > Grant Parish.
United States.
Colfax.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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