Remembering the Memphis Massacre
Beverly Greene Bond (Redaktør) Susan Eva O'Donovan (Redaktør) Greg Downs (Forord) Jim Downs (Innledning) Carole Emberton (Innledning) Timothy S. Huebner (Innledning) Elizabeth L. Jemison (Innledning) Andre E. Johnson (Innledning) Kate Masur (Innledning) K. Stephen Prince (Innledning) Joseph P. Reidy (Innledning) John Rodrigue (Innledning) Hannah Rosen (Innledning) Joshua D. Rothman (Innledning) Julie Saville (Innledning) Calvin Schermerhorn (Innledning) Andrew L. Slap (Innledning)
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. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic, cultural, class, and gender tensions rocketing to new heights. Les mer
As a federal military commander noted in the days following, "what [was] called the 'riot'" was "in reality [a] massacre" of extended proportions. It was also a massacre whose effects spread far beyond Memphis, Tennessee. As the essays in this collection reveal, the massacre at Memphis changed the trajectory of the post-Civil War nation. Led by recently freed slaves who refused to be cowed and federal officials who took their concerns seriously, the national response to the horror that ripped through the city in May 1866 helped to shape the nation we know today. Remembering the Memphis Massacre brings this pivotal moment and its players, long hidden from all but specialists in the field, to a public that continues to feel the effects of those three days and the history that made them possible.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Georgia Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780820356501
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm