The Assault on Elisha Green: Race and Religion in a Kentucky Community

by Randolph Paul Runyon

Book Overview

On June 8, 1883, Rev. Elisha Green was traveling by train from Maysville to Paris, Kentucky. At Millersburg, about forty students from the Millersburg Female College crowded onto the train, accompanied by their music teacher, Frank L. Bristow, and the college president, George T. Gould. Gould grabbed the reverend by the shoulder and ordered him to give up his seat. When Green refused, Bristow and Gould assaulted him until the conductor intervened...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813152380
• ISBN13: 9780813152387
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up