Carnival of Fury

Download or read book Carnival of Fury written by William Ivy Hair and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This biography of Charles follows him from childhood in a Mississippi sharecropper?s cabin to his violent death on New Orleans? Saratoga Street. With the few clues available, William Ivy Hair has pieced together the story of a man whose life spanned the thirty-four years from emancipation to 1900?a man who tried to achieve dignity and self-respect in a time when people of his race could not exhibit such characteristics without fear of reprisal" -- publisher website (October 2006).