The Tragedy of Robert Charles
Historic tragedy of the race riot in 1900 New Orleans during the infancy of Jim Crow segregation, a dark period where all of America's racial, social, and political ills began and suffers to this very day. On a sweltering night on July 23rd, 1900, one man resisted the brutality of three New Orleans police officers and ignited what was called the "Crime of the Century", and began a week-long orgy of murder, violence, and hatred on the streets of the old city. Refusing to be lynched by the mobs, this lone black man waged battle with over ten thousand white men, military, and police on a narrow street on July 27th 1900. The Tragedy of Robert Charles is a true piece of American history that was deliberately covered up, and after 110 years, is finally told in truth and honesty, and memorialized in the up-coming screenplay "Robert Charles". The book "The Tragedy of Robert Charles" and the screenplay "Robert Charles" is a definitive look in the mirror.
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