by Elizabeth L. Jemison The white mob that held Memphis in terror for three terrible days in May 1866 targeted black churches for destruction. They burned wood frame buildings and ruined even a large brick church building. According to the Congressional inquiry into the massacre, the mob destroyed every black church in Memphis. The Congressional report […]
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Continue reading →On March 17 at 6 p.m. in the McCallum Ballroom, Bryan Campus Life Center at Rhodes College (reception at 5:30 p.m.), Dr. Stephen V. Ash will speak about his book A Massacre in Memphis. In May 1866, a year after the Civil War ended, the city of Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial […]
Continue reading →Dr. Beverly Bond, Co-Director of the Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866 Project will deliver a lecture on the campus of Austin Peay University Thursday, March 31st at 4:00pm in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, the National Pan-Hellenic Council and APSU Student Life and Engagement Dr. Bond’s lecture […]
Continue reading →As part of the Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866 Project, Dr. Christina Moss will give a talk titled “Rhetoric and Commemoration: (Re)Marking Memories and Building Bridges and Why It Matters.” The lecture focuses on examples of civil rights commemoration and their importance to American identity. Commemoration markers and memorials tell narratives that, in turn, define […]
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