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

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

John Desantis

176 pages 2016

1 edition

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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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