Memphis Murder & Mayhem

2008-08-29 True Crime

Author : Teresa R. Simpson
Release : 2008-08-29
Genre : True Crime
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Book Rating : 280/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Memphis Murder & Mayhem written by Teresa R. Simpson. This book was released on 2008-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through Memphis’ troubled past: the shocking crimes and the brutal killings that led to it being dubbed the “Murder Capital of the World.” With its alluring hospitality, legendary cuisine and transcendent music, Memphis is truly a quintessential Southern city. But lurking behind the barbeque and blue suede shoes is a dark history checkered with violence and disarray. Revisit the mass murder of 1866 that took more than fifty lives, the infamous Alice Mitchell case of the 1890s and a string of unthinkable twentieth-century sins. Author and lifelong Memphian Teresa Simpson explores some of the River City’s most menacing crimes and notorious characters in this riveting ride back through the centuries. Includes photos!

Mayhem in Memphis

2019-08-20

Author : Malice in Memphis
Release : 2019-08-20
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Download or read book Mayhem in Memphis written by Malice in Memphis. This book was released on 2019-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writers of Malice in Memphis understand that any time you get a big group of people together to go hog wild, there's a perfect opportunity for crime. Each of the tales in Mayhem in Memphis deals with murder or theft or some other action, polite - and not so polite - that society frowns on.Needless to say, the stories are fiction, and so are all the characters, but the settings are quite real.This is the fourth Malice in Memphis anthology of crime-ridden short stories set around the Memphis bluff.Read them all, why don't you?You'll have a blast.Contributing authors: Phyllis Appleby, Mary Balsamo, Kristi Bradley, Barbara Christopher, Juanita D. Houston, Larry Hoy, Lynn Maples, Carolyn McSparren, Elaine Meece, Geoffrey Meece, James C. Paavola, PhD, Jackie Ross Flaum, Angelyn Sherrod, and Dr. Susan Wooten.

Remembering the Memphis Massacre

2020-03-01 History

Author : Beverly Greene Bond
Release : 2020-03-01
Genre : History
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Download or read book Remembering the Memphis Massacre written by Beverly Greene Bond. This book was released on 2020-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic, cultural, class, and gender tensions rocketing to new heights. For three days, a mob of white men roamed through South Memphis, leaving a trail of blood, rubble, and terror in their wake. By May 3, at least forty-six African American men, women, and children and two white men lay dead. An unknown number of black people had been driven out of the city. Every African American church and schoolhouse lay in ruins, homes and businesses burglarized and burned, and at least five women had been raped. As a federal military commander noted in the days following, “what [was] called the ‘riot’” was “in reality [a] massacre” of extended proportions. It was also a massacre whose effects spread far beyond Memphis, Tennessee. As the essays in this collection reveal, the massacre at Memphis changed the trajectory of the post–Civil War nation. Led by recently freed slaves who refused to be cowed and federal officials who took their concerns seriously, the national response to the horror that ripped through the city in May 1866 helped to shape the nation we know today. Remembering the Memphis Massacre brings this pivotal moment and its players, long hidden from all but specialists in the field, to a public that continues to feel the effects of those three days and the history that made them possible.

Mayhem in Memphis

2021-11-15

Author : Carolyn McSparren
Release : 2021-11-15
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Download or read book Mayhem in Memphis written by Carolyn McSparren. This book was released on 2021-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memphis is a city that uses any excuse to party down.When times were hard after the Civil War, our response was to crank up the blues. When that nasty bug, the Boll Weevil, infested our lush fields of cotton, a group of tricksters put on boll weevil costumes and invaded parties, drank the hosts' bourbon, and danced with the ladies (whether they wanted to or not.)One week mid-May was chosen as a blow-out in praise of cotton and the money it brought to us. With the advent of other crops, however, the party became known merely as "Carnival." More recently it has expanded to laud the whole area during May, our last coolish month until October. Even with air conditioning, nobody can celebrate in high summertime down here.The stories in this anthology are centered loosely around this party that has kept our spirits up in one form or another through yellow fever epidemics, boom times and depressions, wartimes and peace times.The writers are members of our local mystery-writers group, Malice in Memphis. We understand that any time you get a big group of people together to go hog wild, there's a perfect opportunity for crime. Each of these tales deals with murder or theft or some other action, polite-and not so polite-that society frowns on. Needless to say, the stories are fiction, and so are all the characters.This is our fourth Malice in Memphis anthology of crime-ridden short stories set around the Memphis bluff. "Mayhem in Memphis" received the Imaginarium Convention's 2020 Imadjinn Award for Best Anthology.

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