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August Reckoning

Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

Robert David Ward author William Warren Rogers author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Alabama Press

Published:30th Jun '04

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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.

ISBN: 9780817351199

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 333g

207 pages