Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook239 pages2 hours
Murder in the Courthouse: Reconstruction & Redemption in the North Carolina Piedmont
By Jim Wise
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
No suspect was ever indicted or tried for the murder of scalawag politician John W. "Chicken" Stephens in a North Carolina courthouse; and the Ku Klux Klan not only rid itself of a troublesome adversary, but also set up a showdown between the state's old guard and the radical regime of Governor William Woods Holden. Follow this little-known tale from the murder, through the "Kirk-Holden War," through the courts and to the finale, when Holden became the United States' first governor impeached and removed from office. Newspaper reporter and historical columnist Jim Wise takes us beyond the final days of the Civil War in North Carolina, amidst the destruction and poverty and debt, to chronicle the men whose clashing agendas and personalities shaped a violent era and laid foundations for the Jim Crow century to come.
Unavailable
Read more from Jim Wise
Murder in the Courthouse: Reconstruction & Redemption in the North Carolina Piedmont Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5On Sherman's Trail: The Civil War's North Carolina Complex Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDurham Tales: The Morris Street Maple, the Plastic Cow, the Durham Day that Was & More Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Murder in the Courthouse
Related ebooks
The Jackson County War: Reconstruction and Resistance in Post–Civil War Florida Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWicked Northern Virginia Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5North Carolina Unionists and the Fight Over Secession Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Life and Campaigns of Major-General J.E.B. Stuart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWaiting for Uncle John: "Cuba Must be Ours" (A Novel) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStar Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRadio Free Dixie, Second Edition: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lenawee County and the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDestruction and Reconstruction: Civil War Memoirs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDestruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences from the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSouth Carolina Fire-Eater: The Life of Laurence Massillon Keitt, 1824-1864 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Diary From Dixie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Northern Men with Southern Loyalties: The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrontier History Along Idaho's Clearwater River: Pioneers, Miners & Lumberjacks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Used to Know That: Civil War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cape Cod and the Civil War: The Raised Right Arm Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInjustice on the Eastern Shore: Race and the Hill Murder Trial Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTreason on the Cape Fear: Roots of the Civil War in North Carolina, January-April 1861 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCalifornia and the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChoose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 1847–1861 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe South Carolina State House Grounds: A Guidebook Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Owing a Shilling Costs a Dollar: The Saga of Lewis G. Clarke, Born a “White” Slave Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ku Klux Klan in South Dakota Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Diary from Dixie (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
United States History For You
The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untold History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Library Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Murder in the Courthouse
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
1 rating0 reviews