Redemption by Nicholas Lemann
"An arresting piece of popular history." --Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review
Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This began an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant's support for the emergent structures of black political power. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875.
Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia University's School of Journalism, is the author of The Big Test (FSG, 1999) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Promised Land. He lives in Pelham, New York, with his family.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374530693 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374530696 |
| Title | Redemption |
| Author | Nicholas Lemann |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Year published | 2007-08-21 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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