A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 0809067978
- ISBN-13
- 9780809067978
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 269
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-15
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Stephen V. Ash
Description
Documents the violent three-day outbreak of racial violence in May 1866 Memphis that resulted in the murders of dozens of freed people, tracing how Congress responded by launching the Radical Reconstruction to enforce freedom laws and how postwar Memphis workers, immigrants and freed people responded. 15,000 first printing.
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