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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Main Author: Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scholastic Focus, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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