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Book The Colfax Massacre

    Book Details:
  • Author : LeeAnna Keith
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0195393082
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book The Colfax Massacre written by LeeAnna Keith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a large body of documents, including eyewitness accounts and evidence from the site itself, Keith explores the racial tensions that led to the Colfax massacre - during which surrendering blacks were mercilessly slaughtered - and the reverberations this message of terror sent throughout the South.

Book Publication

Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Day Freedom Died

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  • Author : Charles Lane
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2008-03-04
  • ISBN : 1429936789
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book The Day Freedom Died written by Charles Lane and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the massacre of a Southern town’s freedmen and a white lawyer’s battle to bring the killers to justice: “Riveting.” —The New York Times Book Review Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex–Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty African Americans who had occupied a courthouse. With skill and tenacity, the Washington Post’s Charles Lane transforms this nearly forgotten incident into a riveting historical saga. Seeking justice for the slain, one brave US attorney, James Beckwith, risked his life and career to investigate and punish the perpetrators—but they all went free. What followed was a series of courtroom dramas that culminated at the Supreme Court, where the justices’ verdict compromised the victories of the Civil War and left Southern blacks at the mercy of violent whites for generations. The Day Freedom Died is an electrifying piece of historical detective work that captures a gallery of characters from presidents to townspeople, and re-creates the bloody days of Reconstruction, when the often-brutal struggle for equality moved from the battlefield into communities across the nation. “Thoroughly readable, carefully documented.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Fascinating.” —New Orleans Times-Picayune “An electrifying piece of historical reporting.” —Tucson Citizen

Book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170  c  of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 c of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Illustrated History of the State of Washington

Download or read book An Illustrated History of the State of Washington written by Harvey Kimball Hines and published by Chicago, The Lewis publishing Company. This book was released on 1893 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illustrated History of the State of Washington

Download or read book Illustrated History of the State of Washington written by Harvey K. Hines and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Washington Historical Quarterly

Download or read book The Washington Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of an Old Farm

Download or read book The Story of an Old Farm written by Andrew D. Mellick and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bicentennial of the United States of America

Download or read book The Bicentennial of the United States of America written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of United States Landslide Maps and Reports

Download or read book Bibliography of United States Landslide Maps and Reports written by Christopher S. Alger and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest

Download or read book Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest written by Carlos A. Schwantes and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the impact of the railroad on the Pacific Northwest states, tracing its history from pre-railroad transportation to the completion of the Northern Pacific line in 1883

Book Americana  American Historical Magazine

Download or read book Americana American Historical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lincoln and California

Download or read book Lincoln and California written by Brian McGinty and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ties that bound Abraham Lincoln to California, and California to Lincoln, have long been overlooked by historians. Although the great Civil War president has been the subject of thousands of books, his important relationship with the Western state, both before and during the war--the part it played in bringing on the great conflict and the help it gave him in winning it--have been little described and imperfectly understood. In Lincoln and California Brian McGinty explains the relationship between the president and the Golden State, describing important events that took place in California and elsewhere during Lincoln's lifetime. He includes the histories of Lincoln's close friends and personal acquaintances who made history as they went to California, lived there, and helped to keep it part of the imperiled Union. McGinty demonstrates that California was in large part responsible for beginning the Civil War, as the principal purpose of its conquest in the Mexican War was to acquire land into which the Southern states could extend their cotton-growing and slaveholding empire. The decision of California's first voters to exclude slavery from the state but to enact virulently racist legislation encouraged Southerners' hope that, if they established a separate republic, it would become an independent slave nation with the power to extend its territory to the Pacific coast of North America and into the Caribbean and Latin America. Lincoln's opposition to their plans unleashed the Civil War. As the struggle played out, however, the hopes of the proslavery Confederates were ultimately defeated because California played a vital role in helping Lincoln save the Union. Lincoln and California shines new light on an important state, a pivotal president, and a turning point in American history.