The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction by Lane, Charles
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction by Lane, Charles

The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

Absorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller.--Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book...
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction by Lane, Charles

The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

$46.58
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction by Lane, Charles

The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

$46.58
Author: Charles Lane
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Absorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller.--Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book Review

Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex-Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty African Americans who had occupied a courthouse.

Seeking justice for the slain, one brave U.S. attorney, James Beckwith, risked his life and career to investigate and punish the perpetrators--but they all went free. What followed was a series of courtroom dramas that culminated at the Supreme Court, where the justices' verdict compromised the victories of the Civil War and left Southern blacks at the mercy of violent whites for generations. The Day Freedom Died is a riveting historical saga that captures a gallery of characters from presidents to townspeople, and re-creates the bloody days of Reconstruction, when the often brutal struggle for equality moved from the battlefield into communities across the nation.

Author: Charles Lane
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Published: 03/31/2009
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780805089226


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/12/2009 pg. 20

About the Author

Charles Lane learned about the Colfax Massacre case while covering the Supreme Court for The Washington Post. A former correspondent for Newsweek and editor of The New Republic, Lane has reported from Japan, Latin America, Europe, and southern Africa. His essays have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard and studied law at Yale. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area.


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