Unpunished Murder: Massacre at Colfax and the Quest for Justice (Scholastic Focus)

by Lawrence Goldstone

Book Overview

The riveting story of how the Supreme Court turned a blind eye on justice, stripped away the equal rights promised to all Americans, and ushered in the era of Jim Crow.

On Easter Sunday of 1873, just eight years after the Civil War ended, a band of white supremacists marched into Grant Parish, Louisiana, and massacred over one hundred unarmed African Americans. The court case that followed reached the highest court in the land. Yet, following...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1338239457
• ISBN13: 9781338239454
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Scholastic Focus
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12