William Warren Rogers

August Reckoning: Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

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During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions like those in other southern states were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to accept a society so structured. Highly intelligent, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner was fearless before whites and emerged as a leader of his race. He helped to forge a political alliance between blacks and whites that defeated and humiliated the Bourbons in Choctaw County, the heart of the Black Belt, in the election of 1882. That summer, after a series of bogus charges and arrests, Turner was accused of planning to lead hi… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Ward, Robert David

ISBN: 978-0-8173-5119-9
EAN: 9780817351199
Produktnummer: 1829077
Verlag: Univ Of Alabama Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 207 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.3 cm 281 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 281

Über den Autor

William Warren Rogers is Emeritus Professor of History at Florida State University and author of The One-Gallused Rebellion: Agrarianism in Alabama. Robert David Ward is Emeritus Professor of History at Georgia Southern University and coauthor (with Rogers) of Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy.