A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0809067978
ISBN13:9780809067978
Release Date:October 2013
Publisher:Hill & Wang
Length:269 Pages
Weight:1.07 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.7" x 9.1"
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