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Rousted by three white policemen while sitting with a friend on a New Orleans doorstep on July 23, 1900, Robert Charles resisted. Baker (history, Bates Coll.) details how Charles, a 35-year-old Mississippi-born Black man, arrived at that moment—and how New Orleans arrived at that moment. The author casts the July 23 event as pivotal; it certainly turned deadly. Charles was bludgeoned and shot by the police officers; he in turn shot and killed two of the men and then escaped. This set off a manhunt an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More