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

Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 (Updated) (Updated): Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 (Updated)One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty seven whites including seven policemen in a series of encounters with the New Orleans police. An avid supporter of black emigration, Charles believed it foolish to rely on southern whites to uphold the law or to acknowledge even minimal human rights for blacks. He therefore systematically armed himself, manufacturing round after round of his