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An illustration of people gathering the dead after the Colfax massacre of 1873

Nicholas Lemann: The Last Battle of the Civil War

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  • ABOUT Nicholas Lemann

    Nicholas Lemann is the dean and Henry R. Luce professor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A Harvard graduate, Lemann is the author of several books and is a contributer to the The New Yorker.

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  • ABOUT Ronne Hartfield

    Ronne Hartfield is a museum consultant and was a research fellow in religion and art at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions. She is a former Woman's Board Endowed Executive Director of Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago and former executive director of Urban Gateways. She is the author of Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family.

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Click play to listen. Recorded on November 4, 2006.

The editor, writer (Washington Monthly, The Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker), and dean of Columbia University School of Journalism discusses his new book Redemption, an account of the terrorist tactics used against freed Blacks to deprive them of their civil rights in the years following Appomattox. Lemann is interviewed by arts educator and writer Ronne Hartfield.

Above: Harper's Weekly illustration of people gathering the dead after the Colfax massacre of 1873.

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