`Your old father Abe Lincoln is dead and damned': Black soldiers and the Memphis race riot of 1866.

RACE relations; NINETEENTH century; RIOTS; HISTORY

TENNESSEE; MEMPHIS (Tenn.); UNITED States

Analyzes the causes of the three-day race riot in Memphis, Tennessee, in May 1866. Memphis as center for the recruitment of black military units; Reduction in black labor as a result of emancipation; Efforts of the black population in demanding for more dignified treatment; White southerners' assertion of dominance over the blacks.