A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War Contributor(s): Ash, V. Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809068303 ISBN-13: 9780809068302 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
Dewey: 305.896 |
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6" W x 9" (0.93 lbs) 286 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee - Locality - Memphis, Tennessee - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
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Publisher Description: An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the fires consuming black churches and schools were put out, forty-six freed people had been murdered. Congress, furious at this and other evidence of white resistance in the conquered South, launched what is now called Radical Reconstruction, policies to ensure the freedom of the region's four million blacks--and one of the most remarkable experiments in American history. |