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On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police
and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder
and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American
emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic, cultural, class,
and gender tensions rocketing to new heights. For three days, a mob
of white men roamed through South Memphis, leaving a trail of
blood, rubble, and terror in their wake. By May 3, at least
forty-six African American men, women, and children and two white
men lay dead. An unknown number of black people had been driven out
of the city. Every African American church and schoolhouse lay in
ruins, homes and businesses burglarized and burned, and at least
five women had been raped. As a federal military commander noted in
the days following, "what [was] called the 'riot'" was "in reality
[a] massacre" of extended proportions. It was also a massacre whose
effects spread far beyond Memphis, Tennessee. As the essays in this
collection reveal, the massacre at Memphis changed the trajectory
of the post-Civil War nation. Led by recently freed slaves who
refused to be cowed and federal officials who took their concerns
seriously, the national response to the horror that ripped through
the city in May 1866 helped to shape the nation we know today.
Remembering the Memphis Massacre brings this pivotal moment and its
players, long hidden from all but specialists in the field, to a
public that continues to feel the effects of those three days and
the history that made them possible.
The second volume of Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times
contains sixteen essays on Tennessee women in the forefront of the
political, economic, and cultural history of the state and assesses
the national and sometimes international scope of their influence.
The essays examine women's lives in the broad sweep of nineteenth-
and twentieth century history in Tennessee and reinvasion the
state's past by placing them at the center of the historical stage
and examining their experiences in relation to significant events.
Together, volumes 1 and 2 cover women's activities from the early
1700s to the late 1900s. Volume 2 looks at antebellum issues of
gender, race, and class; the impact of the Civil War on women's
lives; parades and public celebrations as venues for displaying and
challenging gender ideals; female activism on racial and gender
issues; the impact of state legislation on marital rights; and the
place of women in particular religious organizations. Together
these essays reorient our views of women as agents of change in
Tennessee history.
On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police
and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder
and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American
emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic, cultural, class,
and gender tensions rocketing to new heights. For three days, a mob
of white men roamed through South Memphis, leaving a trail of
blood, rubble, and terror in their wake. By May 3, at least
forty-six African American men, women, and children and two white
men lay dead. An unknown number of black people had been driven out
of the city. Every African American church and schoolhouse lay in
ruins, homes and businesses burglarized and burned, and at least
five women had been raped. As a federal military commander noted in
the days following, "what [was] called the 'riot'" was "in reality
[a] massacre" of extended proportions. It was also a massacre whose
effects spread far beyond Memphis, Tennessee. As the essays in this
collection reveal, the massacre at Memphis changed the trajectory
of the post-Civil War nation. Led by recently freed slaves who
refused to be cowed and federal officials who took their concerns
seriously, the national response to the horror that ripped through
the city in May 1866 helped to shape the nation we know today.
Remembering the Memphis Massacre brings this pivotal moment and its
players, long hidden from all but specialists in the field, to a
public that continues to feel the effects of those three days and
the history that made them possible.
The second volume of Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times
contains sixteen essays on Tennessee women in the forefront of the
political, economic, and cultural history of the state and assesses
the national and sometimes international scope of their influence.
The essays examine women's lives in the broad sweep of nineteenth-
and twentieth century history in Tennessee and reinvasion the
state's past by placing them at the center of the historical stage
and examining their experiences in relation to significant events.
Together, volumes 1 and 2 cover women's activities from the early
1700s to the late 1900s. Volume 2 looks at antebellum issues of
gender, race, and class; the impact of the Civil War on women's
lives; parades and public celebrations as venues for displaying and
challenging gender ideals; female activism on racial and gender
issues; the impact of state legislation on marital rights; and the
place of women in particular religious organizations. Together
these essays reorient our views of women as agents of change in
Tennessee history.
Tennessee women - a force in history. Including suffragists, civil
rights activists, and movers and shakers in politics and in the
music industries of Nashville and Memphis, as well as many other
notables, this collective portrait of Tennessee women offers new
perspectives and insights into their dreams, their struggles, and
their times. As rich, diverse, and wide-ranging as the topography
of the state, this book will interest scholars, general readers,
and students of southern history, women's history, and Tennessee
history.""Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times"" shifts the
historical lens from the more traditional view of men's roles to
place women and their experiences at center stage in the historical
drama. The eighteen biographical essays, written by leading
historians of women, illuminate the lives of familiar figures like
reformer Frances Wright, blueswoman Alberta Hunter, and the Grand
Ole Opry's Minnie Pearl (Sarah Colley Cannon) and less-well-known
characters like the Cherokee Beloved Woman Nan-ye-hi (Nancy Ward),
antebellum free black woman Milly Swan Price, and environmentalist
Doris Bradshaw.Told against the backdrop of their times, these are
the life stories of women who shaped Tennessee's history from the
eighteenth-century challenges of western expansion through the
nineteenth- and twentieth-century struggles against racial and
gender oppression to the twenty-first-century battles with
community degradation. Taken as a whole, this collection of women's
stories illuminates previously unrevealed historical dimensions
that give readers a greater understanding of Tennessee's place
within environmental and human rights movements and its role as a
generator of phenomenal cultural life.
Tennessee women - a force in history. Including suffragists, civil
rights activists, and movers and shakers in politics and in the
music industries of Nashville and Memphis, as well as many other
notables, this collective portrait of Tennessee women offers new
perspectives and insights into their dreams, their struggles, and
their times. As rich, diverse, and wide-ranging as the topography
of the state, this book will interest scholars, general readers,
and students of southern history, women's history, and Tennessee
history.""Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times"" shifts the
historical lens from the more traditional view of men's roles to
place women and their experiences at center stage in the historical
drama. The eighteen biographical essays, written by leading
historians of women, illuminate the lives of familiar figures like
reformer Frances Wright, blueswoman Alberta Hunter, and the Grand
Ole Opry's Minnie Pearl (Sarah Colley Cannon) and less-well-known
characters like the Cherokee Beloved Woman Nan-ye-hi (Nancy Ward),
antebellum free black woman Milly Swan Price, and environmentalist
Doris Bradshaw.Told against the backdrop of their times, these are
the life stories of women who shaped Tennessee's history from the
eighteenth-century challenges of western expansion through the
nineteenth- and twentieth-century struggles against racial and
gender oppression to the twenty-first-century battles with
community degradation. Taken as a whole, this collection of women's
stories illuminates previously unrevealed historical dimensions
that give readers a greater understanding of Tennessee's place
within environmental and human rights movements and its role as a
generator of phenomenal cultural life.
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