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?
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A misunderstanding between four police men and a groups of black males in the evening.
ReplyDeleteresulted in the buring of many black homes
ReplyDeleteMany blacks were thrown in burning houses alive.
ReplyDeleteone of the causes was the existing tension between blacks and "lower class" whites
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