The Lynching of Louie Sam
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781554514953 (1554514959)
Publish date: July 3rd 2012
Publisher: Annick Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
A powerful story based upon real events about racism and scapegoating. Between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,742 lynchings in the United States. In Canada during the same period, there was one - the lynching of Louie Sam, a fifteen-year-old Native American accused of murdering a white man. This story...
What a dynamic book this was. The story was engrossing and fascinating on many fronts. First, the author sucked me in with the historical perspective of the story. I had never heard of this incredibly sad story of the murder of a 13 year old boy due to mob action and that is where the sadness simply...
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