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<\/a>This post is part of the Memories of a Massacre Project: Memphis in 1866.<\/a> This project is designed to bring to public attention the massacre that rattled Reconstruction-era Memphis in May 1866.<\/em><\/p>\nOn May 20-21, 2016, the University of Memphis will host \u201cMemories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866, a Symposium Exploring Slavery, Emancipation, and Reconstruction.\u201d\u00a0<\/a> The culmination of a semester-long series of lectures, workshops, discussions, and book talks, this symposium will feature historians and scholars from across the country, including Robert K. Sutton, Chief Historian of the National Park Service.\u00a0 Together, their presentations and the ensuing discussions will pry open what has for 150-years been the carefully concealed history of Reconstruction, its legacies, and the significant role that Memphis played in both. Please join us as we reflect collectively on a wave of terror that rocked a city and changed a nation.<\/p>\n Free and open to the public, \u201cMemories of a Massacre\u201d will take place at the University of Memphis, University Center Theater. Travel directions and parking information are available on the University Center website<\/a>.\u00a0 A block of rooms has been reserved for Thursday and Friday nights at the Holiday Inn Memphis-University of Memphis<\/a>. Please call 901-678-8200 and mention the Memphis Massacre Symposium or go online<\/a> and use the booking code MMS on or before midnight May 1st, 2016.\u00a0 The group discounted room rate is $125.00 per room per night plus taxes.<\/p>\n Program\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n University of Memphis, University Center Theater<\/p>\n We will live tweet the symposium using #memphismassacre1866. Please follow @MemphisMassacre, @aejohnsonphd, @bondbeverly100, @odonovanse1<\/p>\n FRIDAY, MAY 20:<\/strong><\/p>\n 8:15am-8:30am:<\/strong>Welcome by Karen Weddle-West,<\/a> Provost, University of Memphis<\/p>\n 8:30am-10:45pm: Slavery and Slave Life in the Mississippi Valley<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Joshua D. Rothman, University of Alabama<\/a>,The Cotton Economy and the Rebirth of American Slavery\u201d Twitter Handle<\/strong>:\u00a0@rothmanistan<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 J. Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State, <\/a>\u00a0Cash for Slaves\u2019: The African American Trail of Tears\u201d\u00a0Twitter Handle<\/strong>:\u00a0@CalScherm<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Max Grivno, University of Southern Mississippi<\/a>, \u201cDeath on the River: Slavery in the Yazoo Mississippi Delta\u201d<\/p>\n Moderator: Madeleine C. Taylor, Executive Director, NAACP Memphis<\/a><\/p>\n 11:00am-1:15pm: Civil War and Emancipation in the Mississippi Valley<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Joseph P. Reidy, Howard University<\/a>, \u201cBlack Soldiers and Sailors: Rebuilding Families and the Nation amidst the Chaos of Civil War in the Mississippi Valley\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Jim Downs, Connecticut College,<\/a> \u201cDying to be Free: The Deadly Consequences of Emancipation\u201d Twitter Handle:<\/strong> @jimdowns1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 John C. Rodrigue, Stonehill College<\/a>, \u201cFrom Emancipation to Abolition in Civil-War Tennessee\u201d<\/p>\n Moderator: Femi I. Ajanaku, Director, Center for African & African American Studies,<\/a> LeMoyne-Owen College Twitter Handle:<\/strong>\u00a0@izegbe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Lunch break<\/strong><\/p>\n 2:15pm-4:30pm: Giving Meaning to Freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Susan Eva O\u2019Donovan, University of Memphis<\/a>, \u201cThe Problem of Freedom in the Era of Emancipation\u201d Twitter Handle:<\/strong> @odonovanse1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Kate Masur, Northwestern University<\/a>, \u201cUrban Battlegrounds: Reconstruction in Southern Cities\u201d Twitter Handle:<\/strong> @katemasur<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022Elizabeth L. Jemison<\/a>, Clemson University,\u00a0\u201cChristianity, Race, and Politics after Emancipation.\u201d\u00a0Twitter Handle:<\/strong> @eljemison<\/a><\/p>\n Moderator: Ladrica Menson-Furr, Director of African & African American Studies<\/a>, University of Memphis<\/p>\n 6:00-8:00: Keynote Address (reception at 5:30pm)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Robert K. Sutton, Chief Historian of the National Park Service<\/a>, \u201cThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of American History: Remembering Reconstruction\u201d<\/p>\n Opening remarks by Ronald A. Walter, President and General Manager, WREG-TV, Memphis<\/a><\/p>\n Moderator: Aram Goudsouzian, Chair, Department of History, University of Memphis<\/a><\/p>\n SATURDAY, MAY 21:<\/strong><\/p>\n 8:30am-10:45am: The Memphis Massacre<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Stephen V. Ash, University of Tennessee<\/a>, \u201cA Massacre in Memphis: May 1866\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Hannah Rosen, College of William and Mary<\/a>, \u201cRace, Gender, and Sexual Violence during the Memphis Massacre\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Andrew Slap, East Tennessee State University<\/a>, \u201cOn Duty in Memphis: Fort Pickering\u2019s African American Soldiers\u201d<\/p>\n Moderator: Bobby Lovett, Professor Emeritus, Tennessee State University<\/a><\/p>\n 11:00am-1:15pm: The Radicalization of Reconstruction<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Julie Saville, University of Chicago<\/a>, \u201cLooking Forward: Reconstruction and the Black Organizing Tradition after Slavery\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Carole Emberton, SUNY-Buffalo,<\/a> \u201c\u2019The Violent Bear It Away\u2019: White Responses to Black Political Mobilization during Reconstruction\u201dTwitter Handle:<\/strong> @CaroleEmberton<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College<\/a>, \u201cConstitutionalism and Violence in the Era of Reconstruction\u201d<\/p>\n Moderator: Antoinette Van Zelm, Assistant Director for the Center for Historic Preservation<\/a>, Middle Tennessee State University<\/p>\n Lunch break<\/strong><\/p>\n 2:15pm-4:30pm: Remembering Reconstruction<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Cecelia E. O\u2019Leary, Cal-State Monterey Bay<\/a>, \u201c\u2019Lies Agreed Upon\u2019: The Politics of Historical Memory\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis<\/a> \u201c\u2019If I See Next March\u201d: Henry McNeal Turner and the Rhetorical Legacy of Reconstruction Twitter Handle:<\/strong> @aejohnsonphd<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Peter R. Gathje, Memphis Theological Seminary<\/a>, Religion and Reconstruction: Lesson for Today? Twitter Handle:<\/strong> @petegath<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Charles McKinney, Rhodes College<\/a>, \u201cReconstruction\u2019s Protean Post-Civil Rights Legacy\u201d Twitter Handle:<\/strong> @kmt188<\/a><\/p>\n Moderator: Steve Masler, Manager of the Exhibit Department, Pink Palace Museum, Memphis<\/p>\n 4:30pm: <\/strong>Closing remarks by the Hon. Bernice B. Donald<\/a>\u00a0Presiding, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Donate to the Work of R3<\/b><\/p>\n