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The Colfax Massacre. The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction.
Leeanna Keith
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Description for The Colfax Massacre. The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction.
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 19 halftones, 18 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 289.
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 full-length book to tell the history of this decisive event. Drawing on a huge body of documents, including eyewitness accounts of the massacre, as well as newly discovered evidence ... Read more
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 full-length book to tell the history of this decisive event. Drawing on a huge body of documents, including eyewitness accounts of the massacre, as well as newly discovered evidence ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195393088
SKU
V9780195393088
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About Leeanna Keith
LeeAnna Keith teaches history at Collegiate School in New York City. Her historical articles have appeared in The Dictionary of American History and The Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations. She is co-author, with Sandra Fekete, of Companies Are People, Too.
Reviews for The Colfax Massacre. The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction.
'...well-researched and accessible...'
Library Journal '...vivid, compelling prose...serious scholarship accessible to a non-academic readership.'
Eric Foner, The Washington Post 'In The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction , LeeAnna Keith powerfully accomplishes what she set out to do, to shed new light on a tragically under-reported but significant chapter in America's past.... Meticulously ... Read more
Library Journal '...vivid, compelling prose...serious scholarship accessible to a non-academic readership.'
Eric Foner, The Washington Post 'In The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction , LeeAnna Keith powerfully accomplishes what she set out to do, to shed new light on a tragically under-reported but significant chapter in America's past.... Meticulously ... Read more