Carnival of Fury

Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900

Carnival of Fury was written by William Ivy Hair, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage. The 216 page book was published by LSU Press in 2008 (originally in 1976) with an ISBN 10 of 0807133345. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Carnival of Fury mentions 1 serial killers including Robert Joe Wagner. The author William Ivy Hair has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

One July week in 1900, an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites in a series of encounters with the New Orleans police. Charles believed it foolish to rely on southern whites to uphold the law, let alone to acknowledge even minimal human rights for blacks, and therefore systematically armed himself, manufacturing round after round of his own ammunition before undertaking his intentionally symbolic act of violent resistance. After the shootings, Charles became an instant hero among some blacks, but to most people he remained a mysterious and sinister figure who had promoted a "back-to-Africa" movement. CARNIVAL OF FURY follows Charles from childhood in a Mississippi sharecropper's...