August reckoning
Jack Turner and racism in post-Civil War Alabama
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Author
Contributions
- Ward, Robert David. - Contributor
Publication
1973 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Language
English
Word Count
48,750 words, Guess
Page Count
195 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5311937M
- ISBN-100807102091
- OCLC Control Number736909
- OCLC Control Numberaugustreckoningj0000roge
- Library of Congress Control Number72096401
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- Goodreads4768586
- LibraryThing1067863
Classifications
- DDC320.9/761/39506
- LCCF326.T872 R63
Description
An important story of one man's life, lived with courage and principle. 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 his private army of blacks in a general slaughter of the county whites. Justice was forgotten in the resultant fear and hysteria.
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- Biography.
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