Stephen V. Nash, author of this book, makes it evident that this was clearly a race riot. So, For three days, whites with the acceptance and some involvement of municipal police, assaulted and murdered blacks, raped women and burned black schools and churches. Ash also displays how the revelations of a future congressional investigation created rage in the North and helped Radical Republicans form a solid Reconstruction policy. A Massacre in Memphis is a condensed and entertaining account of the devastating acts that occurred in this southern city. The events that took place in this book seems to not be mentioned amongst the important events that took place in American History. This book is structured into three parts that distinctively shows the main population groups back then that occupied Memphis. The population consisted of the Yankees, the rebels, the irish and the blacks of post-civil war Memphis. Other sections of the book include a timeline of the massacre itself and a study of the massacre’s
Stephen V. Nash, author of this book, makes it evident that this was clearly a race riot. So, For three days, whites with the acceptance and some involvement of municipal police, assaulted and murdered blacks, raped women and burned black schools and churches. Ash also displays how the revelations of a future congressional investigation created rage in the North and helped Radical Republicans form a solid Reconstruction policy. A Massacre in Memphis is a condensed and entertaining account of the devastating acts that occurred in this southern city. The events that took place in this book seems to not be mentioned amongst the important events that took place in American History. This book is structured into three parts that distinctively shows the main population groups back then that occupied Memphis. The population consisted of the Yankees, the rebels, the irish and the blacks of post-civil war Memphis. Other sections of the book include a timeline of the massacre itself and a study of the massacre’s