Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction

by LeeAnna Keith

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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, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging white supremacists. The most deadly incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but extinguished the campaign for racial equality.

LeeAnna Keith's The Colfax Massacre is the first...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195393082

ISBN13:9780195393088

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.66 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.6" x 8.1"

Related Subjects

19th Century African Americans African-American Studies Civil War Historical Study & Educational Resources History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social History Social Science

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