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Ash, Stephen V. author.
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Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866.
African Americans -- Violence against -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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A massacre in Memphi...
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A massacre in
Memphis
: the
race
riot
that shook the nation one year after the Civil War / Stephen V. Ash.
by
Ash, Stephen V. author.
Subjects
Memphis
Race
Riot
,
Memphis
,
Tenn
.,
1866
.
African Americans -- Violence against -- Tennessee --
Memphis
-- History -- 19th century.
Memphis
(
Tenn
.) --
Race
relations -- History -- 19th century.
Publisher Info:
New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780809067978 (hardback)
0809067978 (hardback)
Contents:
Memphis
, Tennessee, May 22-24,
1866
-- A city divided. Yankee
Memphis
; Rebel
Memphis
; Irish
Memphis
; Black
Memphis
-- The
Riot
. An incident on the Bayou Bridge : Monday, April 30, midafternoon to Tuesday, May 1, late afternoon ; "You have killed him once, what do you want to kill him again for?" : Tuesday, May 1, late afternoon to Wednesday, May 2, first light ; Fire : Wednesday, May 2, early morning to Thursday, May 3, dawn -- The aftermath. Recriminations and investigations ; The
Riot
is history and memory.
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Summary:
"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. Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in
Memphis
is a portrait of a Southern city that opens an entirely new view onto the Civil War and its aftermath. A momentous national event, the
riot
is also remarkable for being "one of the best-documented episodes of the American nineteenth century." Yet Ash is the first to mine the sources available to full effect. Bringing postwar
Memphis
to vivid life, he takes us among newly arrived Yankees, former Rebels, boisterous Irish immigrants, and striving freed people, and shows how Americans of the period worked, prayed, expressed their politics, and imagined the future. And how they died: Ash's harrowing and profoundly moving present-tense narration of the
riot
has the immediacy of the best journalism. Told with nuance, grace, and a quiet moral passion, A Massacre in
Memphis
is Civil War-era history like no other"--
"An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history"--
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