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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"Absorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller."--Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book ReviewFollowing the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small arm...

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