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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Remembering the Memphis Massacre. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2020] (DLC) 2019044400 (OCoLC)1122689578 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Beverly G Bond; Susan E O'Donovan |
ISBN: | 9780820356495 0820356492 |
OCLC Number: | 1143219853 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | edited by Beverly Greene Bond and Susan Eva O'Donovan. |
Abstract:
On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. This book brings this pivotal moment and its players, long hidden from all but specialists, to a public that continues to feel the effects of the massacre and the history that made it possible.
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