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Published: 18 January 2022
... the Associated Press distributed. A media chain reaction of newspaper stories, newsreels, cartoons, songs, preacher’s sermons, political speeches, and folklore sprang forth from Harris’s call to Roosevelt. Blues singer Memphis Minnie told Harris’s story in “Sylvester and His Mule Blues.” Harris Sylvester...
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Published: 01 September 2009
...This chapter discusses the history of Carnival Memphis, which celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in June 2006. Members of the original Carnival association organized in 1931 during the throes of the Great Depression. They intended to showcase Memphis to the region and the world as a modern...
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Published: 01 September 2009
.... The overarching concern of this project is to show that place matters by presenting a narrative case-study analysis of one resilient southern city. Memphis, anchored in global flows of technology, culture, people, and goods, reveals the complexity of local and global processes intertwined in the production...
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Published: 30 April 2009
...This chapter focuses on the lynching of Harris Tunstal behind the Methodist Episcopal church in Oxford, Mississippi in July 1885. According to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Tunstal, a black man, was hanged for a “diabolical” sexual assault on one of Oxford's “most highly respected...
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Published: 01 February 2009
...This chapter describes the assault on a former slave named Frances Thompson and another African American woman, Lucy Smith, with whom she shared a house. This was one of hundreds of incidents of collective violence against recently emancipated slaves that together became known as the Memphis Riot...
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Published online: 18 September 2014
Published in print: 15 April 2014
...When the author of this book returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution “I hope you know this ain't Chicago.” This work critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African Americans...
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Published: 25 February 2013
...This chapter shows how the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4 in Memphis threatened to disrupt not just fragile black-white relations but most of what he had sought in the last months of his life—new alliances, increased public sympathy toward the poor, and a renewed dedication...
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Published: 28 May 2007
...This chapter examines the black community's moral outrage against police brutality involving sexual assaults in postwar Memphis and its major ramifications for the politics of racial justice. It discusses how police sexual assaults of black women galvanized African Americans and put race, manhood...
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Published: 28 May 2007
...This chapter examines the politicization of young African Americans in Memphis in the early Cold War period and its intersection with the Freedom Train controversy and the 1948 elections. Focusing on the students at LeMoyne College, it looks at black youth's efforts to carve out identities...
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Published: 28 May 2007
...This chapter examines how postwar consumption of mass culture, especially movies and radio, became a locus of racial struggle in Memphis during the 1940s. It considers how the city's board of censors tried to impose on the silver screen a racial imaginary harking back to slavery and how African...
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Published: 28 May 2007
...This conclusion focuses on the mobilization of African Americans in Memphis following the sanitation workers' strike in 1968 and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. It examines black Memphians' understandings of freedom in relation to the “plantation mentality” and their almost 30 years...
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Published: 11 January 2021
... grandfather from her memoir. Mollie’s solution was to emphasize the striking physical resemblance between the two men, mentioning their almost identical photographs dressed in full regalia as Knights Templar Masons. (Courtesy University of Memphis Special Collections) Figure 1.2. (Left...
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Published: 23 March 2015
...This chapter explores the role of Memphis Sound as a both a symbol and an instrument of the Black Power Movement. It highlights Stax Records, who, under the leadership of Al Bell, amplified the musical “blackness” of its recordings. The studio used nationalist rhetoric in its advertisements...
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Published: 24 October 2016
...Chapter two continues to trace the origins of the Union army’s “hard yet humane” just-war policies by investigating the Federal experience in occupied Memphis and New Orleans in 1862. Occupying two major Confederate cities forced Union officers and soldiers to come into direct and frequent contact...
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Published online: 21 January 2016
Published in print: 23 March 2015
...In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee...
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Published: 01 September 2009
...This chapter shows how past disruptions and identities, self-consciousness about them, and concerns about public image give meaning and narrative coherence to Memphis as a distinctive southern place and shape place identity. Symbols of past disruptions and conflicts, installed in public spaces...
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Published: 12 March 2012
...Engineer officer John G. Barnard proposed a plan to capture New Orleans with land troops and naval support, then proceed northward to take Natchez, Vicksburg, and Memphis. He envisioned occupying the entire Gulf Coast and believed that the capture of New Orleans would close down the major...
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Published: 27 June 2017
... scenes in New Orleans, Memphis and Houston, focusing on the distinctive institutional arrangements of bohemia in each city. Blues revival Charters Samuel Country Blues The Charters Folk music House Son Hurt Mississippi John James Skip New Orleans LA Quorum coffeehouse New Orleans Soule Frederick...
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Published: 27 June 2017
...This chapter considers how historical and contemporary patterns of racial segregation influence the development of bohemian scenes in the South with particular attention to the establishment and maintenance of southern black bohemian cultural spaces. Using Memphis, a city with a rich musical legacy...
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Published: 20 October 2008
...This chapter focuses on Dave McCarn and how he found himself in Memphis, Tennessee in May 1930, six hundred miles from home and nearly flat broke. When the onset of the Great Depression threw him out of work, McCarn, a twenty-five-year-old Gastonia, North Carolina millhand, and his fourteen-year...