| Contents |
"In the hands of the Lord": migrants and community politics in the late nineteenth century / Brian D. Page -- "The saving of black America's body and white America's soul": the lynching of Ell Persons and the rise of black activism in Memphis / Darius Young -- Equal power: Bishop Charles H. Mason and the National Tabernacle fire / Elton H. Weaver III -- "There will be no discrimination": race, power, and the Memphis flood of 1937 / David Welky -- Taylor-made: envisioning black Memphis at midcentury / Beverly Greene Bond -- "We'll have no race trouble here": racial politics and Memphis's reign of terror / Jason Jordan -- Power and protection: gender and black working-class protest narratives, 1940-1948 / Laurie B. Green -- Black Memphians and new frontiers: the Shelby County Democratic Club, the Kennedy administration, and the quest for black political power, 1959-1964 / Elizabeth Gritter -- "Since I was a citizen, I had the right to attend the library": the key role of the public library in the civil rights movement in Memphis / Steven A. Knowlton -- "You pay one hell of a price to be black": Rufus Thomas and the racial politics of Memphis music / Charles Hughes -- "If the march cannot be here, then where?": Memphis and the Meredith March / Aram Goudsouzian -- Nonviolence, black power, and the surveillance state in Memphis's war on poverty / Anthony C. Siracusa -- Beyond 1968: the 1969 Black Monday protest in Memphis / James Conway -- Beauty and the black student revolt: black student activism at Memphis State and the politics of campus "beauty spaces" / Shirletta Kinchen -- After Stax: race, sound, and neighborhood revitalization / Zandria F. Robinson -- Black workers matter: the continuing search for racial and economic equality in Memphis / Michael Honey. |
