Carnival of Fury - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carnival of Fury write by William Ivy Hair. This book was released on 2008-02-01. Carnival of Fury available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites—including seven policemen—in a series of encounters with the New Orleans police. An avid supporter of black emigration, Charles believed it foolish to rely on southern whites to uphold the law or to acknowledge even minimal human rights for blacks. He therefore systematically armed himself, manufacturing round after round of his own ammunition before undertaking his intentionally symbolic act of violent resistance. After the shootings, Charles became an instant hero among some blacks, but to most people he remained a mysterious and sinister figure who had promoted a “back-to-Africa” movement. Few knew anything about his early life. This biography of Charles follows him from childhood in a Mississippi sharecropper’s cabin to his violent death on New Orleans’s Saratoga Street. With the few clues available, William Ivy Hair has pieced together the story of a man whose life spanned the thirty-four years from emancipation to 1900—a man who tried to achieve dignity and self-respect in a time when people of his race could not exhibit such characteristics without fear of reprisal. Hair skillfully penetrates the world of Robert Charles, the communities in which he lived, and the daily lives of dozens of people, white and black, who were involved in his experience. A new foreword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage sets this unique and innovative biography in the context of its time and demonstrates its relevance today.
A Spectacular Secret
A Spectacular Secret - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Spectacular Secret write by Jacqueline Goldsby. This book was released on 2006-08-15. A Spectacular Secret available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
All Hell Broke Loose
All Hell Broke Loose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All Hell Broke Loose write by Ann V. Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-01. All Hell Broke Loose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States has a troubling history of violence regarding race. This book explores the emotionally charged conditions and factors that incited the eruption of race riots in America between the Progressive Era and World War II. While racially motivated riot violence certainly existed in the United States both before and after the Progressive Era through World War II, a thorough account of race riots during this particular time span has never been published. All Hell Broke Loose fills a long-neglected gap in the literature by addressing a dark and embarrassing time in our country's historyone that warrants continued study in light of how race relations continue to play an enormous role in the social fabric of our nation. Author Ann V. Collins identifies and evaluates the existing conditions and contributing factors that sparked the race riots during the period spanning the Progressive Era to World War II throughout America. Through the lens of specific riots, Collins provides an overarching analysis of how cultural factors and economic change intersected with political influences to shape human actionson both individual and group levels.
Right to Ride
Right to Ride - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Right to Ride write by Blair Murphy Kelley. This book was released on 2010. Right to Ride available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride<
The Ballad of Robert Charles
The Ballad of Robert Charles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ballad of Robert Charles write by K. Stephen Prince. This book was released on 2021-02-10. The Ballad of Robert Charles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. After an altercation with police on a New Orleans street, Charles killed two police officers and fled. During a manhunt that extended for days, violent white mobs roamed the city, assaulting African Americans and killing at least half a dozen. When authorities located Charles, he held off a crowd of thousands for hours before being shot to death. The notorious episode was reported nationwide; years later, fabled jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton recalled memorializing Charles in song. Yet today, Charles is almost entirely invisible in the traditional historical record. So who was Robert Charles, really? An outlaw? A black freedom fighter? And how can we reconstruct his story? In this fascinating work, K. Stephen Prince sheds fresh light on both the history of the Robert Charles riots and the practice of history-writing itself. He reveals evidence of intentional erasures, both in the ways the riot and its aftermath were chronicled and in the ways stories were silenced or purposefully obscured. But Prince also excavates long-hidden facts from the narratives passed down by white and black New Orleanians over more than a century. In so doing, he probes the possibilities and limitations of the historical imagination.
