In An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee, eminent and rising scholars present a multidisciplinary examination of African American activism in Memphis from the dawn of emancipation to the twenty-first century. Together, they investigate episodes such as the 1940 ‘Reign of Terror’ when black Memphians experienced a prolonged campaign of harassment, mass arrests, and violence at the hands of police. They also examine topics including the relationship between the labor and civil rights movements, the fight for economic advancement in black communities, and the impact of music on the city’s culture. Covering subjects as diverse as politics, sports, music, activism, and religion, An Unseen Light illuminates Memphis’s place in the long history of the struggle for African American freedom and human dignity.
Cuprins
1. Introduction
2. ‘In the Hands of the Lord’: Migrants and Community Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century
3. ‘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
4. Equal Power: Bishop Charles H. Manson and the National Tabernacle Fire
5. ‘There Will Be No Discriminiation’: Race, Power, and the Memphis Flood of 1937
6. Taylor-Made: Envisioning Black Memphis at Midcentury
7. ‘We’ll Have No Race Trouble Here’: Racial Politics and Memphis’s Reign of Terror
8. Power and Protection: Gender and Black Working-Class Protest Narratives, 1940-1948
9. Black Memphians and New Frontiers: The Shelby County Democratic Club, the Kennedy Administration, and the Quest for Black Political Power, 1959–1964
10. ‘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
11. ‘You Pay One Hell of a Price to Be Black’: Rufus Thomas and the Racial Politics of Memphis Music
12. ‘If the March Cannot Be Here, Then Where?’: Memphis and the Meredith March
13. Nonviolence, Black Power, and the Surveillance State in Memphis’s War on Poverty
14. Beyond 1968: The 1969 Black Monday Protest in Memphis
15. Beauty and the Black Student Revolt: Black Students Activism at Memphis State and the Politics of Campus ‘Beauty Spaces’
16. After Stax: Race, Sound, and Neighborhood Revitalization
17. Black Workers Matter: The Continuing Search for Racial and Economic Equality in Memphis
18. Coda
Despre autor
Aram Goudsouzian is Bizot Family Professor of History at the University of Memphis. His books include Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon, King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution, and Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear.
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