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August Reckoning: Jack Turner and Racism in Post–Civil War Alabama (Library Alabama Classics)

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An vital story of 1 man’s life, lived with courage and principle.

During the decades of Bourbon ascendancy after 1874, Alabama institutions like the ones in other southern states were dominated by whites. Former slave and sharecropper Jack Turner refused to simply accept a society so structured. Extremely smart, physically imposing, and an orator of persuasive talents, Turner used to be 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 center of the Black Belt, within the election of 1882. That summer, after a series of bogus charges and arrests, Turner used to be accused of making plans to guide his private army of blacks in a general slaughter of the county whites. Justice used to be forgotten within the resultant fear and hysteria.


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