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Item Information       Booklist Review     More Content     More by this author     Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-     Subjects     United States. Supreme Court -- History -- 19th century.     Blacks -- Crimes against -- Louisiana -- Colfax -- History -- 19th century     Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana     Constitutional law -- United States     Massacres -- Louisiana -- Colfax     Blacks -- Crimes against -- History -- 19th century.     Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)     Constitutional law.     Massacres.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-       by title:      Unpunished murder : ...       by call number:      976.367 G624um     Search the Web     Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-     United States. Supreme Court -- History -- 19th century.     Blacks -- Crimes against -- Louisiana -- Colfax -- History -- 19th century     Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana     Constitutional law -- United States     Massacres -- Louisiana -- Colfax     Blacks -- Crimes against -- History -- 19th century.     Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)     Constitutional law.     Massacres.       MARC Display

Unpunished murder : massacre at Colfax and the quest for justice / Lawrence Goldstone. by Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947- Scholastic Focus, c2018. Call #: 976.367 G624um Subjects United States. Supreme Court -- History -- 19th century.   Blacks -- Crimes against -- Louisiana -- Colfax -- History -- 19th century   Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana   Constitutional law -- United States   Massacres -- Louisiana -- Colfax   Blacks -- Crimes against -- History -- 19th century.   Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)   Constitutional law.   Massacres. ISBN:  9781338239454 Alternate title:  Massacre at Colfax and the quest for justice Edition:  First edition. Description:  xxi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index. Contents:  A new government : Alexander Hamilton and "Brutus" -- The Supreme Court is born : John Marshall -- Less than human : Roger Taney and Dred Scott -- Remaking America : Andrew Johnson and Thaddeus Stevens -- Some odd arithmetic : who won the war? -- Two amendments and a dream of equality : John Bingham -- The Klan : Nathan Bedford Forrest and Mary Polk Branch -- Reconstruction in black and white : Harriet Ann Jacobs and Frank Alexander Montgomery -- An island for Freedmen : Colfax -- Fraud runs wild : Samuel McEnery and William Kellogg -- Reconstruction ascendant : Blanche K. Bruce -- Massacre : James Hadnot -- The wheels of justice : J.R. Beckwith -- Civil rights on trial -- Is justice language or an idea? : Joseph P. Bradley -- The most important judge in the nation : Morrison Waite -- Civil rights : Charles Sumner -- One hundred years of freedom : Philadelphia and the White League -- The end of the line -- President by one vote : the Fifteenth Man. Summary:  On Easter Sunday of 1873, just eight years after the Civil War ended, a band of white supremacists marched into Grant Parish, Louisiana, and massacred over one hundred unarmed African Americans. The court case that followed would reach the highest court in the land. Yet, following one of the most ghastly and barbaric incidents of mass murder in American history, not a single person was convicted. The opinion issued by the Supreme Court in US v. Cruikshank set in motion a process that would help create a society in which black Americans were oppressed and denied basic human rights -- legally, according to the courts. These injustices would last for the next hundred years, and many continue to exist to this day. In this compelling and thoroughly researched volume for young readers, Lawrence Goldstone traces the evolution of the law and the fascinating characters involved in the story of how the Supreme Court helped institutionalize racism in the American justice system. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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