Rhetoric and Commemoration: Memory Matters
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Tweets from Tim Huebner’s Lecture
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Continue reading →Tweets from the Stephen Ash Lecture
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Continue reading →Dr. Stephen Ash to Give Talk on the Memphis Massacre
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 →Do Memories Matter?
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 […]
Continue reading →Do Black Truths Matter?
by Susan O’Donovan That was the question Dr. Andre E. Johnson of the Department of Communications put to a packed room on February 16 at the University Center. In a moving address, Dr. Johnson reminded his audience that black truths do not always matter today. Black testimony is too easily discounted and disregarded. This is […]
Continue reading →Hallowed Grounds of African American Education
As part of the African American History program at LeMoyne-Owen College, on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, Dr. Bobby Lovett, Professor Emeritus at Tennessee State University will offer a lecture titled, “HBCUs: Hallowed Grounds of African American Education.” The lecture will start at 11:00am and take place at Metropolitan Baptist Church located at 767 Walker Avenue in […]
Continue reading →Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866
Welcome to the Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866 Project This project, a semester-long series of activities culminating with an academic symposium, is designed to bring to public attention the massacre that rattled Reconstruction-era Memphis in May 1866. The massacre was the first of a series of bloody confrontations that erupted between black and […]
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