A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War

by Stephen V. Ash

Book Overview

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"