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A massacre in Memphis
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Stephen V. Ash |
"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 r… |
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The Memphis blues again
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Ernest C. Withers |
"Through the photographs of Ernest C. Withers we travel the decades down Beale Street, the main street of the Memphis music scene, and find ourselves on a journey into the heart and soul of America. … |
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The American Plague
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Molly Caldwell Crosby |
In this account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the k… |
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