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Baker, Andrew D., author.
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Charles, Robert, 1865?-1900 -- Death and burial.
African Americans -- Violence against -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
Police brutality -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
Race riots -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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To poison a nation :...
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To poison a nation : the murder of Robert Charles and the rise of Jim Crow policing in America / Andrew Baker.
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Baker, Andrew D., author.
New York : The New Press, [2021]
Subjects
Charles, Robert, 1865?-1900 -- Death and burial.
African Americans -- Violence against -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
Police brutality -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
Race riots -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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9781620976036 (hardcover) :
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viii, 363 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue -- Fortunes -- Visions -- Eclipse -- Specters -- Flambeaux -- Revelations -- Crucible -- Redemption -- Epilogue.
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"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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