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The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike

The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:John DeSantis, Foreword By Burnell Tolbert (Foreword by)Series:True CrimePublish date:2016-11-14Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781467136891ISBN-10:1467136891UPC:9781467136891Book Category:History, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, African American & Black, MurderBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC55CGWZKM

Fear, rumor and white supremacist ideals clashed with an unprecedented labor action spawned an epic tragedy.


On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families due to strikes on Louisiana sugar

Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781467136891ISBN-10:1467136891UPC:9781467136891Book Category:History, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, African American & Black, MurderBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC55CGWZKM
DeSantis, John: - John DeSantis is the senior staff writer at the Times of Houma, Louisiana. A product of New York City, his work has previously appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and other publications. A journalist whose criminal justice background was attained at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, he has covered social justice and race relations extensively in New York, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina and California. He is also a former city editor at the Thibodaux Daily Comet. His other books include For the Color of His Skin: The Murder of Yusuf Hawkins and the Trial of Bensonhurst and the New Untouchables: How America Sanctions Police Violence. A recipient of numerous awards from the Louisiana Press Association, the Associated Press Managing Editors Association and other news media organizations, DeSantis resides in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.

Publisher: History Press

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