Tweets from the Stephen Ash Lecture
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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 →Dr. Beverly Bond to Lecture at Austin Peay University
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 →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 →#BlackTruthMatters: A Conversation on Race
“How do you get past race if you don’t even want to admit that something happened?”-by Andre E. Johnson On Thursday February 25, 2016, I had an opportunity to do the Talk, Memphis Podcast with David Waters of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. In our discussion, not only did we talk about the Rhetoric Race and […]
Continue reading →Learning Techniques from Facing History and Ourselves
On January 27 and 28, 2016, Will Wilson, Park Guide at Vicksburg National Military Park (a unit of the National Park Service) participated in the teachers’ workshop sponsored by Facing History & Ourselves. Here’s what Will had to say: I was one of two National Park Service personnel in attendance, while most participants were teachers […]
Continue reading →Speaking Reconstruction: Moving Beyond the Silence
By Steven Tramel Gaines “It was a deliberate act of concealment.” Dr. Susan O’Donovan of the Department of History said those words about “the silence that continues to surround Reconstruction and which dampens public understanding of what was arguably one of the most foundational periods in national history.” O’Donovan delivered a lecture, as part of the […]
Continue reading →A Discussion on “Freeman”
Below are the tweets from Drs. Beverly Bond and Susan O’Donovan’s discussion on Leonard Pitt’s novel Freeman. To listen to the discussion here. [View the story “Discussion on Leonard Pitts’ Freeman” on Storify]
Continue reading →Does Black Truth Matter: Black Lives and the Disregard and Recovery of Black Truth
Below is a portion of the text of the talk that Dr. Andre E. Johnson gave on Tuesday February 16, 2016 as part of Black History Month at the University of Memphis. To listen the talk, click here. On Thursday, December 10, 2015, a jury found former Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty of multiple counts […]
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 →Contextually Speaking: Black Soldiers in the Post-Emancipation South
by Susan O’Donovan The racial violence that swept Memphis in early May 1866 was no accident. Indeed, very little happens in a vacuum: not wars, not revolutions, not even the sinking of the Titanic. Histories, it turns out, have their own histories, and one of the historian’s tasks is to figure out why things happened. […]
Continue reading →Reconstruction’s Untold Stories
Dr. Susan O’Donovan, co-director of the Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866 Project will offer an overview of the Memphis Massacre. Titled “Reconstruction’s Untold Story,” Dr. O’Donovan will offer an interactive lecture designed to engage audience members to ask, answer, or even pose questions of their own. Since there are no historical markers, no statutes that […]
Continue reading →#MemphisMassacre1866: Black History Month Lecture
Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866 Project, Dr. Andre E. Johnson gave the Black History Month lecture at the University of Memphis. Below are some of the tweets about and during the lecture. [View the story “Does Black Truth Matter?” on Storify]
Continue reading →Upcoming Talks from Drs. Johnson and O’Donovan
Leaders of the Memories of a Massacre Project will present two talks on the campus of the University of Memphis. In the first one, Communication Director Dr. Andre E. Johnson will give a talk titled “Does Black Truth Matter?: Black Lives and the Disregard and Recovery of Black Truth.” In it, Johnson will argue that […]
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