An Absolute Massacre
Title | An Absolute Massacre PDF eBook |
Author | James G. Hollandsworth, Jr. |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2004-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807130292 |
In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. On July 30, a procession of black suffrage supporters pushed through an angry throng of hostile whites. Words were exchanged, shots rang out, and within minutes a riot erupted with unrestrained fury. When it was over, at least forty-eight men—an overwhelming majority of them black—lay dead and more than two hundred had been wounded. In An Absolute Massacre, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., examines the events surrounding the confrontation and offers a compelling look at the racial tinderbox that was the post-Civil War South.
New Orleans Riots of July 30, 1866
Title | New Orleans Riots of July 30, 1866 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots |
Publisher | |
Pages | 692 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | New Orleans (La.) |
ISBN |
The New Orleans Riot of 1866
Title | The New Orleans Riot of 1866 PDF eBook |
Author | Gilles Vandal |
Publisher | University of Louisiana |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Examines the social, political, and economic forces that interacted to produce the most notable of the South's Reconstruction riots.
An Examination of the Events During Presidential Reconstruction of Louisiana, Leading to the New Orleans Riots of July 30th, 1866
Title | An Examination of the Events During Presidential Reconstruction of Louisiana, Leading to the New Orleans Riots of July 30th, 1866 PDF eBook |
Author | R. D. Gwyn-Rees |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Louisiana |
ISBN |
Report of the Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots
Title | Report of the Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots |
Publisher | |
Pages | 686 |
Release | 1867 |
Genre | New Orleans (La.) |
ISBN |
1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre, The: Blood in the Cane Fields
Title | 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre, The: Blood in the Cane Fields PDF eBook |
Author | C. Dier |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1625858558 |
Days before the tumultuous presidential election of 1868, St. Bernard Parish descended into chaos. As African American men gained the right to vote, white Democrats of the parish feared losing their majority. Armed groups mobilized to suppress these recently emancipated voters in the hopes of regaining a way of life turned upside down by the Civil War and Reconstruction. Freedpeople were dragged from their homes and murdered in cold blood. Many fled to the cane fields to hide from their attackers. The reported number of those killed varies from 35 to 135. The tragedy was hidden, but implications reverberated throughout the South and lingered for generations. Author and historian Chris Dier reveals the horrifying true story behind the St. Bernard Parish Massacre.
The Thibodaux Massacre
Title | The Thibodaux Massacre PDF eBook |
Author | John DeSantis |
Publisher | History Press Library Editions |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2016-11-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781540201072 |
On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families during a spree lasting more than two hours. The violence erupted due to strikes on Louisiana sugar cane plantations. Fear, rumor and white supremacist ideals clashed with an unprecedented labor action to create an epic tragedy. A future member of the U.S. House of Representatives was among the leaders of a mob that routed black men from houses and forced them to a stretch of railroad track, ordering them to run for their lives before gunning them down. According to a witness, the guns firing in the black neighborhoods sounded like a battle. Author and award-winning reporter John DeSantis uses correspondence, interviews and federal records to detail this harrowing true story.