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African Americans in Memphis

Author : Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738567501
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book African Americans in Memphis written by Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memphis has been an important city for African Americans in the South since the Civil War. They migrated from within Tennessee and from surrounding states to the urban crossroads in large numbers after emancipation, seeking freedom from the oppressive race relations of the rural South. Images of America: African Americans in Memphis chronicles this regional experience from the 19th century to the 1950s. Historic black Memphians were railroad men, bricklayers, chauffeurs, dressmakers, headwaiters, and beauticians, as well as businessmen, teachers, principals, barbers, preachers, musicians, nurses, doctors, Republican leaders, and Pullman car porters. During the Jim Crow era, they established social, political, economic, and educational institutions that sustained their communities in one of the most rigidly segregated cities in America. The dynamic growth and change of the post-World War II South set the stage for a new, authentic, black urban culture defined by Memphis gospel, blues, and rhythm and blues music; black radio; black newspapers; and religious pageants.

African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound

Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739175866
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound written by Charles Williams and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound is an exploration of the conditions of living for residents of a segregated subdivision in the deep south from 1890 to 1919. It is also a study of contemporary approaches to community building during a time period of racial segregation and polarization. The town of Orange Mound, built by Elzey E. Meacham as an all-black subdivision for “negroes,” represents a unique chapter in American history. There is no other case, neither in the deep South nor in the far West, of such a tremendous effort on the part of African Americans to come together to occupy a carved out space—eventually making it into a black community on the outskirts of Memphis on a former slave plantation. The significance of “community” continues to be relevant to our ever-evolving understanding of racial and ethnic formations in the South. This ethnography of community, family, and institution in the latter nineteenth and early twentieth-century Shelby County Tennessee reveals the richness and complexity of community building through an investigation of cultural and historic community development, settlement patterns, kinship networks, and sociopolitical, economic, and religious value systems in the historic black community of Orange Mound. This research is the product of a thorough ethnographic study conducted over a three-year period which involves participation observation, in-depth interviews, textual analysis of family histories, newspapers, census data, and local government and church records. Even though textual analysis was used throughout the text, its intent was to utilize the concepts and categories that were relevant and meaningful to the people of Orange Mound.

A Massacre in Memphis

Author : Stephen V. Ash
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0809067986
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Massacre in Memphis written by Stephen V. Ash and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 slaves 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, slavery, 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, Tennessee 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.

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights

Author : Michael K. Honey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054326
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights written by Michael K. Honey and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely praised upon publication and now considered a classic study, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights chronicles the southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the Cold War, a history that created the context for the sanitation workers' strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in April 1968. Michael K. Honey documents the dramatic labor battles and sometimes heroic activities of workers and organizers that helped to set the stage for segregation's demise. Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award, given by the Southern Historical Association, 1994. Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994. Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award for an outstanding book in American social history.

Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964

Author : Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780915525102
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964 written by Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable pictorial overview of African American vitality in a southern metropolis

Battling the Plantation Mentality

Author : Laurie B. Green
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888877
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Battling the Plantation Mentality written by Laurie B. Green and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of "freedom" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing "plantation mentality" based on race, gender, and power that permeated southern culture long before--and even after--the groundbreaking legislation of the mid-1960s. With its slogan "I AM a Man!" the Memphis strike provides a clarion example of how the movement fought for a black freedom that consisted of not only constitutional rights but also social and human rights. As the sharecropping system crumbled and migrants streamed to the cities during and after World War II, the struggle for black freedom touched all aspects of daily life. Green traces the movement to new locations, from protests against police brutality and racist movie censorship policies to innovations in mass culture, such as black-oriented radio stations. Incorporating scores of oral histories, Green demonstrates that the interplay of politics, culture, and consciousness is critical to truly understanding freedom and the black struggle for it.

"Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis "

Author : EarnestineLovelle Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351552457
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis " written by EarnestineLovelle Jenkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis: from Slavery to Jim Crow presents a rich interpretation of African American visual culture. Using Victorian era photographs, engravings, and pictorial illustrations from local and national archives, this unique study examines intersections of race and image within the context of early African American communities. It emphasizes black agency, looking at how African Americans in Memphis manipulated the power of photography in the creation of free identities. Blacks are at the center of a study that brings to light how wide-ranging practices of photography were linked to racialized experiences in the American south following the Civil War. Jenkins' book connects the social history of photography with the fields of visual culture, art history, southern studies, gender, and critical race studies.

Notable Black Memphians

Author :
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968634
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Notable Black Memphians written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Power in the Bluff City

Author : Shirletta J. Kinchen
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781621901877
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Power in the Bluff City by : Shirletta J. Kinchen

Download or read book Black Power in the Bluff City written by Shirletta J. Kinchen and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Black Power activism on the coasts and in the Midwest has attracted considerable scholarly attention, much less has been written about the movement's impact outside these hot beds. Shirletta J. Kinchen helps redress that imbalance by examining how young Memphis activists embraced Black Power ideology to confront gross disparities in housing, education, and employment as well as police brutality and harassment.

The Bright Side of Memphis

Author : Green Polonius Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bright Side of Memphis written by Green Polonius Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This Ain't Chicago

Author : Zandria F. Robinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469614227
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book This Ain't Chicago written by Zandria F. Robinson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South

From Boss Crump to King Willie

Author : Otis Sanford
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781621904175
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book From Boss Crump to King Willie written by Otis Sanford and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Boss Crump to King Willie offers an in-depth look at the vital role that race played in the political evolution of Memphis, from the rise of longtime political boss Edward Hull Crump to the election of Dr. Willie Herenton as the city{u2019}s first black mayor. Filled with vivid details on the workings of municipal politics, this accessible account by veteran journalist Otis Sanford explores the nearly century-long struggle by African Americans in Memphis to secure recognition from local leaders and gain a viable voice in the city{u2019}s affairs"--Amazon.

Memphis

Author : Tara M. Stringfellow
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 0593230507
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Memphis written by Tara M. Stringfellow and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy. “A rhapsodic hymn to Black women.”—The New York Times Book Review “I fell in love with this family, from Joan’s fierce heart to her grandmother Hazel’s determined resilience. Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the Bone LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, NPR, BuzzFeed, Glamour, PopSugar Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets cast a longer shadow than any of them expected. As she grows up, Joan finds relief in her artwork, painting portraits of the community in Memphis. One of her subjects is their enigmatic neighbor Miss Dawn, who claims to know something about curses, and whose stories about the past help Joan see how her passion, imagination, and relentless hope are, in fact, the continuation of a long matrilineal tradition. Joan begins to understand that her mother, her mother’s mother, and the mothers before them persevered, made impossible choices, and put their dreams on hold so that her life would not have to be defined by loss and anger—that the sole instrument she needs for healing is her paintbrush. Unfolding over seventy years through a chorus of unforgettable voices that move back and forth in time, Memphis paints an indelible portrait of inheritance, celebrating the full complexity of what we pass down, in a family and as a country: brutality and justice, faith and forgiveness, sacrifice and love.

Memphis Tennessee Garrison

Author : Memphis Tennessee Garrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780821413746
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Memphis Tennessee Garrison written by Memphis Tennessee Garrison and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oral history, based on interview transcripts, is the untold story of African American life in West Virginia, as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman: Memphis Tennessee Garrison, an innovative teacher, administrative worker at US Steel, and vice president of the National Board of the NAACP at the height of the civil rights struggle.

Hidden History of Memphis

Author : G. Wayne Dowdy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423194X
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Memphis written by G. Wayne Dowdy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of the Tennessee city filled with famous faces, fascinating trivia, and forgotten lore—plus a former mayor’s previously unpublished private papers. Step inside the fascinating annals of the Bluff City's history and discover the Memphis that only few know. G. Wayne Dowdy, longtime archivist for the Memphis Public Library, examines the history and culture of the Mid-South during its most important decades. Well-known faces like Clarence Saunders, Elvis Presley, and W.C. Handy are joined by some of the more obscure characters from the past, like the Memphis gangster who inspired one of William Faulkner's most famous novels; the local Boy Scout who captured German spies during World War I; the Memphis radio station that pioneered wireless broadcasting; and so many more. Also included are the previously unpublished private papers and correspondence of former mayor E.H. Crump, giving us new insight and a front-row seat to the machine that shaped Tennessee politics in the twentieth century. Includes photos

Memphis, Nam, Sweden

Author : Terry Whitmore
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878059843
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Memphis, Nam, Sweden written by Terry Whitmore and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest memoirs of the Vietnam experience

Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo, A: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals

Author : Tony Kail
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467137391
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo, A: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals written by Tony Kail and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely known for its musical influence, Beale Street was also once a hub for Hoodoo culture. Many blues icons, such as Big Memphis Ma Rainey and Sonny Boy Williamson, dabbled in the mysterious tradition. Its popularity in some African American communities throughout the past two centuries fueled racial tension--practitioners faced social stigma and blame for anything from natural disasters to violent crimes. However, necessity sometimes outweighed prejudice, and even those with the highest social status turned to Hoodoo for prosperity, love or retribution. Author Tony Kail traces this colorful Memphis heritage, from the arrival of Africans in Shelby County to the growth of conjure culture in juke joints and Spiritual Churches.