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010      2013015255 
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035    (OCoLC)827256867 
035    (OCoLC)827256867 
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050 00 F444.M557|bA75 2013 
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100 1  Ash, Stephen V. 
245 12 A massacre in Memphis :|bthe race riot that shook the 
       nation one year after the Civil War /|cStephen V. Ash. 
250    First edition. 
263    1310 
264  1 New York :|bHill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus 
       and Giroux,|c2013. 
300    xiv, 269 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and 
       index. 
520    "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 in the conquered South, launched what is now 
       called Radical Reconstruction, policies to ensure the 
       freedom of the region's four million blacks--and one of 
       the most remarkable experiments in American history. 
       Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in Memphis is a portrait of a 
       Southern city that opens an entirely new view onto the 
       Civil War and its aftermath. A momentous national event, 
       the riot is also remarkable for being "one of the best-
       documented episodes of the American nineteenth century." 
       Yet Ash is the first to mine the sources available to full
       effect. Bringing postwar Memphis to vivid life, he takes 
       us among newly arrived Yankees, former Rebels, boisterous 
       Irish immigrants, and striving freed people, and shows how
       Americans of the period worked, prayed, expressed their 
       politics, and imagined the future. And how they died: 
       Ash's harrowing and profoundly moving present-tense 
       narration of the riot has the immediacy of the best 
       journalism. Told with nuance, grace, and a quiet moral 
       passion, A Massacre in Memphis is Civil War-era history 
       like no other"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    "An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most
       significant racial clashes in American history"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866. 
650  0 African Americans|xViolence against|zTennessee|zMemphis
       |xHistory|y19th century. 
650  7 HISTORY|zUnited States|xCivil War Period (1850-1877)
       |2bisacsh 
651  0 Memphis (Tenn.)|xRace relations|xHistory|y19th century. 
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