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

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

Charles Lane

352 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging dark slow-paced
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The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town’s ex-slaves and a white lawyer’s historic battle to bring the perpretators to justice Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where African Americans and whites mingled ...

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