Tademy family chronicles
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1) Cane River
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Series
Tademy family chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
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Description
Lalita Tademy was a successful vice president at Sun Microsystems when she began what became an obsessive two-year search to uncover the story of her family's roots. It was a personal odyssey that took her back to the early l800s and a small rural community on Louisiana's Cane River. There, digging through official records, conducting interviews, and relying on the expertise of professional genealogists, Tademy was able to bring to vivid life four...
2) Red River
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Series
Tademy family chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
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The 1873 massacre of over one hundred newly freed African-Americans in Colfax, Louisiana, by white supremacists, only makes the Tademy and Smith families more determined to claim the rights afforded them in the wake of the Civil War, even though it means generations of struggle and persecution.