The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike by John Desantis

The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike

True Crime

John Desantis

176 pages • first pub 2016 (view editions)

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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 cane plantat...

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