In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai\'i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South.
Coffman describes native Hawaiian political activism, the queen\'s visits to Washington, D.
C., to lobby for indep.
In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex History of the unsuccessful efforts of deposed Hawaiian queen Lili\'uokalani and her subjects to resist annexation, which eventually came in 1898.
In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai\'i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South