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To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America

Andrew Baker

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Description:An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today’s criminal justice crisisOn a steamy Monday evening in 1900, New Orleans police officers confronted a black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running high. What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the city’s history, while white mobs took to the streets, attacking and murdering innocent black residents during three days of bloody rioting. Finally cornered, Charles exchanged gunfire with the police in a spectacular gun battle witnessed by thousands.Building outwards from these dramatic events, To Poison a Nation connects one city’s troubled past to the modern crisis of white supremacy and police brutality. Historian Andrew Baker immerses readers in a boisterous world of disgruntled laborers, crooked machine bosses, scheming businessmen, and the black radical who tossed a flaming torch into the powder keg. Baker recreates a city that was home to the nation’s largest African American community, a place where racial antagonism was hardly a foregone conclusion—but which ultimately became the crucible of a novel form of racialized violence: modern policing.A major work of history, To Poison a Nation reveals disturbing connections between the Jim Crow past and police violence in our own times.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America. To get started finding To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today’s criminal justice crisisOn a steamy Monday evening in 1900, New Orleans police officers confronted a black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running high. What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the city’s history, while white mobs took to the streets, attacking and murdering innocent black residents during three days of bloody rioting. Finally cornered, Charles exchanged gunfire with the police in a spectacular gun battle witnessed by thousands.Building outwards from these dramatic events, To Poison a Nation connects one city’s troubled past to the modern crisis of white supremacy and police brutality. Historian Andrew Baker immerses readers in a boisterous world of disgruntled laborers, crooked machine bosses, scheming businessmen, and the black radical who tossed a flaming torch into the powder keg. Baker recreates a city that was home to the nation’s largest African American community, a place where racial antagonism was hardly a foregone conclusion—but which ultimately became the crucible of a novel form of racialized violence: modern policing.A major work of history, To Poison a Nation reveals disturbing connections between the Jim Crow past and police violence in our own times.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America. To get started finding To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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