On the laps of gods : the Red Summer of 1919 and the struggle for justice that remade a nation / Robert Whitaker.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Crown Publishers, c2008.Description: 386 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps 24 cmISBN:- 9780307339829
- F 417.P45 .W580 2008
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
American Learning Resource | Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | F 417.P45 .W580 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 9ALRC201101348 |
Browsing Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
No cover image available | No cover image available | No cover image available | No cover image available | |||||
F 349.G82 .H719 1997 From the Mississippi Delta : a memoir / | F 379.N553 .Z374 2010 Zeitoun / | F 390 .T373 2001 The Alamo : a cultural history / | F 417.P45 .W580 2008 On the laps of gods : the Red Summer of 1919 and the struggle for justice that remade a nation / | F 436.C95 .G898 2005 David Crockett : hero of the common man / | F 444.M59 .G256 1995 Pushed back to strength : a Black woman's journey home / | F 459.M37 .Sl14 2006 The Town on Beaver Creek : the story of a lost Kentucky community / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-367) and index.
September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. Racial fighting had erupted in 25 cities. Deep in the Arkansas Delta, black sharecroppers formed a union to sue their white landowners, who had cheated them for years. What happened next has long been shrouded in controversy. Over several days, posses and federal troops gunned down more than 100 men, women, and children. White authorities arrested more than 300 black farmers, and in brief trials, all-white juries sentenced twelve union leaders to the electric chair. And then, a lawyer from Little Rock stepped forward. Scipio Africanus Jones, born a slave, joined with the NAACP to mount an appeal in which he argued that his clients' constitutional rights to a fair trial had been violated. Never before had the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a criminal verdict in a state court because the proceedings had been unfair.--From publisher description.
There are no comments on this title.