The Colfax massacre : the untold story of Black power, White terror, and the death of Reconstruction /
On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia were slain by rampaging white supremacists. The deadliest incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but exti...
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Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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