Unpunished murder : massacre at Colfax and the quest for justice by Goldstone, Lawrence 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Focus, 2018)

BTSB #: 384819 Available

Dewey: 976.3/NAges: 12-18   
AR: 9.1 UG RC: 12.9 6-8 Lexile: 1260

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Subjects: United States.|bSupreme Court United States.|bSupreme Court African Americans - Colfax (Louisiana) Massacres - Colfax (Louisiana) Reconstruction (1865-1876) Constitutional law - United States

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, 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 implement Jim Crow and two-tiered justice.