ISBN:
0820356492
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9780820356495
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Remembering the Memphis Massacre
DDC:
305.896/07307681909034
Keywords:
Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866
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Race riots History 19th century
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African Americans Violence against 19th century
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History
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History
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Race riots
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Race relations
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Memphis (Tenn.) Race relations 19th century
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History
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Tennessee ; Memphis
Abstract:
"On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between (white) Memphis city police and a group of (all black) Union soldiers quickly escalated into "murder and mayhem." A mob of white men roamed through south Memphis, leaving a trail of blood, rubble, and terror in their wake. By May 3, at least forty-six African American men, women, and children and two white men lay dead. Other Memphians, mostly black but a few whites closely associated with the city's growing population of black migrants, lost their homes. Many were brutally assaulted. An unknown number of terrified blacks were driven out of the city. Every African American church and schoolhouse lay in ruins, homes and businesses burglarized and burned, and at least five women had been raped. As a federal military commander noted in the days following, "What [was] called the 'riot, '" was "in reality [a] massacre" of extended proportions. Remembering the Memphis Massacre is a collection of essays that will teach non-specialists about a history that has been hidden from all but academics for most of the past century and a half, thereby placing the Memphis Massacre in its wider historical context"--
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note: Cotton Economy and the Rebirth of American Slavery / Joshua D. Rothman -- "Cash for Slaves": The African American Trail of Tears / Calvin Schermerhorn -- Black Soldiers and Sailors and the Defense of Freedpeople's Rights / Joseph P. Reidy -- "Thank God That the Tyrants Rod Has Been Broken": The Abolition of Slavery in Tennessee / John C. Rodrigue -- Structural Violence: The Humanitarian Crisis before the Memphis Massacre / Jim Downs -- Urban Battlegrounds: Reconstruction in Southern Cities / Kate Masur -- Christianity and Race in the Memphis Massacre of 1866 / Elizabeth L. Jemison -- Words of Resistance: African American Women's Testimony about Sexual Violence during the Memphis Massacre / Hannah Rosen -- On Duty in Memphis: Fort Pickering's African American Soldiers / Andrew L. Slap -- Black Organizing Traditions after Slavery / Julie Saville -- Black Constitutionalism and the Making of the Fourteenth Amendment / Timothy S. Huebner -- "The Violent Bear It Away": White Responses to Black Political Mobilization during Reconstruction / Carole Emberton -- "I Have Had to Pass through Blood and Fire": Henry McNeal Turner and the Rhetorical Legacy of Reconstruction / Andre E. Johnson -- Memory Battles: History, Memory, and the Meanings of Reconstruction / K. Stephen Prince.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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