Unpunished murder : massacre at Colfax and the quest for justice / Lawrence Goldstone ; foreword by Angela Onwuachi-Willig.
"On Easter Sunday of 1873, just eight years after the Civil War ended, a band of white supremacists marched into Grant Parish, Louisiana, and massacred over one hundred unarmed African Americans. The court case that followed would reach the highest court in the land. Yet, following one of the m...
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New York :
Scholastic Focus,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- A new government : Alexander Hamilton and "Brutus"
- The Supreme Court is born : John Marshall
- Less than human : Roger Taney and Dred Scott
- Remaking America : Andrew Johnson and Thaddeus Stevens
- Some odd arithmetic : who won the war?
- Two amendments and a dream of equality : John Bingham
- The Klan : Nathan Bedford Forrest and Mary Polk Branch
- Reconstruction in black and white : Harriet Ann Jacobs and Frank Alexander Montgomery
- An island for Freedmen : Colfax
- Fraud runs wild : Samuel McEnery and William Kellogg
- Reconstruction ascendant : Blanche K. Bruce
- Massacre : James Hadnot
- The wheels of justice : J.R. Beckwith
- Civil rights on trial
- Is justice language or an idea? : Joseph P. Bradley
- The most important judge in the nation : Morrison Waite
- Civil rights : Charles Sumner
- One hundred years of freedom : Philadelphia and the White League
- The end of the line
- President by one vote : the Fifteenth Man.