August Reckoning: Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

by William Warren Rogers

Book Overview

An important story of one man's life, lived with courage and principle

During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions like those in other southern states were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to accept a society so structured. Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged as a leader of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817351191
• ISBN13: 9780817351199
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.5"