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Author Keith, LeeAnna.

Title The Colfax massacre : the untold story of Black power, White terror, and the death of Reconstruction / LeeAnna Keith.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  976.3 KEI    Storage
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  976.3 KEITH    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-209) and index.
Contents Introduction : On Bones and their Markers -- Alabama Fever -- The Philosopher -- The Fall -- Led by a Damned Puppy -- A Town Called Fight -- Carnival of the Animals -- Battle of the Colfax Courthouse -- Voyage of the Ozark -- Getting Away with Murder -- The Legacy of Cruikshank.
Subject Colfax (La.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Grant Parish (La.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana -- Colfax.
Massacres -- Louisiana -- Colfax -- History -- 19th century.
Violence -- Louisiana -- Colfax -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- Louisiana -- Colfax -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Louisiana -- Colfax -- History -- 19th century.
Contested elections -- Louisiana -- Grant Parish -- History -- 19th century.
Grant Parish (La.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780195310269 alkaline paper
0195310268 alkaline paper
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