Bibliograph

Freedom on trial, the first post-Civil War battle over civil rights and voter suppression, Scott Farris

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Freedom on trial, the first post-Civil War battle over civil rights and voter suppression, Scott Farris

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-343) and index

Illustrations

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Freedom on trial

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1222805170

Responsibility statement

Scott Farris

Sub title

the first post-Civil War battle over civil rights and voter suppression

Summary

Highlighting forgotten Black and white civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story of a moment pregnant with promise when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn

Table Of Contents

"The dismal hour draws nigh" -- "No special privileges or peculiar favors" -- "Pray that God may forgive Ku Klux" -- "All kindness [is] evidence of timidity" -- "Such a state of social disorganization" -- "Teach the negro his duty to be quiet" -- "We will not be able to control the court" -- "The Constitution is on trial" -- "The right to bear arms is not a right" -- "It has got to be a bore" -- "After they got done with me, I had no sense" -- "I had [no] right to preach against [such] raids" -- "The shortest cut is the 'shanghaiing process'" -- "Freedom is not safe while we have a Supreme Court" -- "Jim Williams's truth is marching on."

Target audience

adult

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