The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike (True Crime)

The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike (True Crime)

John DeSantis, Foreword By Burnell Tolbert (Foreword by)
$21.99
Publication Date: November 14th, 2016
Publisher:
History Press
ISBN:
9781467136891
Pages:
176
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Description

Fear, rumor and white supremacist ideals clashed with an unprecedented labor action spawned an epic tragedy.

On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families due to strikes on Louisiana sugar.

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