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August Reckoning: Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama - Couverture souple

Rogers, William Warren; Ward, Robert David

 
9780817351199: August Reckoning: Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0817351191 ISBN 13 : 9780817351199
Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2004

Synopsis

An important story of one man's life, lived with courage and principle

During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions like those in other southern states were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to accept a society so structured. Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged as a leader of his race. He helped to forge a political alliance between blacks and whites that defeated and humiliated the Bourbons in Choctaw County, the heart of the Black Belt, in the election of 1882. That summer, after a series of bogus charges and arrests, Turner was accused of planning to lead his private army of blacks in a general slaughter of the county whites. Justice was forgotten in the resultant fear and hysteria.

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À propos de l'auteur

William Warren Rogers is professor emeritus of history at Florida State University, where he has spent more than a half-century supervising the scholarly efforts of graduate and undergraduate students.

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Éditeur
The University of Alabama Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0817351191
ISBN 13 
9780817351199
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
207
Coordonnées du fabricant
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