Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction

by LeeAnna Keith

Book Overview

On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging white supremacists. The most deadly incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but extinguished the campaign for racial equality.

LeeAnna Keith's The Colfax Massacre is the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195393082
• ISBN13: 9780195393088
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.1"