Memphis massacre of 1866
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memphis-massacre-of-1866-211-889807
title:
Memphis massacre of 1866
text:
The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a rebellion with a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866, in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence was ignited by political and social racism following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction. After a shooting altercation between white policemen and black veterans recently mustered out of the Union Army, mobs of white residents and policemen rampaged through black neighborhoods and the houses of freedmen, attacking a
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Massacre of the Black community of Memphis, Tennessee
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_massacre_of_1866
date created:
2009-08-04T13:46:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T21:26:48Z
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