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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Free in Name Only: A Behavioral-Historical Revisitation of the Attempted Ethnic Cleansing of Memphis in 1866

Free in Name Only: A Behavioral-Historical Revisitation of the Attempted Ethnic Cleansing of Memphis in 1866

Stephens, Torrance T.

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Black American History

ISBN10: 1718643039
ISBN13: 9781718643031
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 4 2018
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
On May 3, 1866 46 blacks were killed in Memphis, Tennessee by white mobs made up largely of Irish residents on the city's south side. Some historians have reduced this blood bath to a race riot and suggested that a black soldier's gun fire provoked the attack. With verve, candor, and a steely eye for detail, Memphis native son Torrance Stephens provides a nuanced revision that grounds these sordid events in a much larger history of the South's defeat during the Civil War, the persistence of white supremacy and the problem of the Negro in the post-bellum United States. Dr. Fanon Che Wilkins, Associate Professor of American Studies and History Doshisha University Kyoto, Japan

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