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Historians talked about race relations in post-Civil War Memphis and the lives of freed blacks in the city both before and after the 1866 riot that resulted in the massacre of dozens of Afri…

Historians talked about the ways society was fundamentally different after the Civil War. They described the importance of community organizing for freed blacks in the South, the role of for…

University of Memphis Law school professor Daniel Kiel has spent years collecting stories of the original desegregation of the Memphis City Schools in October 1961. His work takes a look at …

Moderated by Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-Tennessee), current members of Congress, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-Washington, D.C.) and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), and formers members of…

Benjamin Hooks, former NAACP Executive Director, spoke to a group of sixth grade students about the importance of civic responsibility. He also talked about the civil rights movement and the…