To Poison a Nation
The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America
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Word Count
90,750 words, Guess
Page Count
363 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781620976036
- ISBN-10162097603X
- Library of Congress Control Number2021001817
- OCLC Control Number1191239526
- Better World Books9781620976036
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL37482828M
Classifications
- LCCF379.N59B34 2021
- LCCF379.N59 B34 2021
Description
"An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence in New Orleans that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis"-- 1900. New Orleans police officers confronted a black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running high. What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the city's history, while white mobs took to the streets, attacking and murdering innocent black residents during three days of bloody rioting. Finally cornered, Charles exchanged gunfire with the police in a gun battle witnessed by thousands. Baker immerses listeners in a boisterous world of disgruntled laborers, crooked machine bosses, scheming businessmen, and the black radical who tossed a flaming torch into the powder keg. -- adapted from jacket
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