Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 (Updated) - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:William Ivy Hair, W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Foreword by)Publish date:2/1/2008Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807133347ISBN-10:807133345UPC:9780807133347Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.52 x 5.80 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCVP5S4KP3
Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 (Updated)
One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites--including seven policemen--in a series of encounters with the New Orleans police. An avid supporter of black emigration, Charles believed it foolish to rely on southern whites to uphold the law or to acknowledge even minimal human rights for blacks. He therefore...
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807133347ISBN-10:807133345UPC:9780807133347Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.52 x 5.80 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCVP5S4KP3
William Ivy Hair (1930-1992) was Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Southern History at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. He is the author of several books, including The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long and Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest: Louisiana Politics, 1877-1900.
W. Fitzhugh Brundage is a William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North...Publisher: LSU Press
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