Murder in the Courthouse: Reconstruction & Redemption in the North Carolina Piedmont

No Suspect was ever indicted or tried for the murder of scalawag politician John W. 'Chicken' Stephens in a North Carolina courthouse; and the Ku Klux Klan not only rid itself of a troublesome adversary but also set up a showdown between the state's old guard and the radical regime of Governor William Woods Holden. Follow this little-known tale from the murder, through the "Kirk-Holden War," through the courts and to the finale, when Holden became the United States' first governor impeached...