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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction [Hardcover] Lane, Charles
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Describes the 1873 Colfax, Louisiana, massacre of more than sixty former slaves by a group of white former Confederate soldiers, the efforts of attorney James Beckwith to investigate the crime and punish the perpetrators, and the courtroom dramas, culminating with the Supreme Court, that eschewed justice and left Southern blacks at the mercy of violent racists for generations. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.