RT Book
T1 Remembering the Memphis Massacre: an American story
A2 Bond, Beverly Greene
A2 O'Donovan, Susan E. 1953-
LA English
PP Athens
PB The University of Georgia Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1692367153
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN F444.M557
SN 9780820356518
SN 9780820356501
K1 Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866
K1 Race riots : Tennessee : Memphis : History : 19th century
K1 African Americans : Violence against : Tennessee : Memphis : History : 19th century
K1 Memphis (Tenn.) : Race relations : History : 19th century
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 Memphis : Tenn. : Rassenunruhen : Geschichte 1866