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150 years later marker recalls Memphis massacre history
A marker at Army Navy Park in Memphis commemorates the May 1 to 3, 1866 massacre where mobs killed an estimated 46 black people. The plaque notes Reconstruction era fallout and debate over labeling the event a race riot.
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Memphis
Tenn
Congressional
United States
Army-Navy Park
National Park Service
NAACP
Tennessee Historical Commission
Phyllis Aluko
Memphis Naacp
Aluko
Associated Press
Martin Luther King Jr
Elaine Lee Turner
Slave Haven
Turner
Stephen V. Ash
Ash
Regina Walker
Walker
National Civil Rights Museum
Lorraine Motel
King
New York
South Carolina
Missouri
Mags
Charleston
Blake
South St. Lake Calhoun
G.E. Patterson
Congressional Investigative Committee