- Race relations, Lawyers, History, Violence
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex-Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty African Americans who had occupied a courthouse.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and resolved.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Charles Lane
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Holt Paperbacks, Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed, Henry Holt and Co.
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780805083422
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Charles Lane (born 1961) is an American journalist and editor who is the deputy editor at *The Free Press* and a regular guest on the Fox News Channel. He was the editor of *The New Republic* from 1997 to 1999 and the deputy opinion editor for *The Washington Post* from 2000 to 2024. **Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lane_(journalist)" target="blanck">Charles Lane</a> on Wikipedia.
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