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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Freedmen's Bureau - Memphis Race Riot

This is a link to the actual report on the Memphis Race Riot in 1866. http://www.freedmensbureau.com/tennessee/outrages/memphisriot.htm This is a horrifying event in American History. No one is proud if this. If you have any questions you can browse the Freedmen's Bureau website at http://www.freedmensbureau.com/tennessee/index.htm. AP Question Time! What were the causes of the Memphis Race Riot?

4 comments:

  1. A misunderstanding between four police men and a groups of black males in the evening.

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  2. resulted in the buring of many black homes

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  3. Many blacks were thrown in burning houses alive.

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  4. one of the causes was the existing tension between blacks and "lower class" whites

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