Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Beam-Week-1 Title A name given to the resource This Week in Reconstruction, May 1-8, 1866 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Brooke Beam Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 1-8, 1866 Description An account of the resource Important decisions to be made are debated and slow to be agreed upon. The South opposes the Reconstruction plan of the Radicals, deciding it ridiculous to believe they could accept the conditions of the new amendment proposed. The plan would outlaw voting and representation in Congress for those loyal to the Confederacy; there was no way the North could inflexibly force these new laws on Southerners, especially Virginians. The white South realizes that it will need to compromise- the Radicals will not enable former Confederates to vote in the upcoming presidential election unless they accept the new constitution. Robert E. Lee reports that the South would be more accepting of defeat with a more moderate and balanced reconstruction plan, especially Johnson's. The President's lenient policy is based on securing political honesty and abandoning the former treatment of blacks in the South. According to Lee, he is not asking for a swarm of black voters, but simply a realistic strategy for reuniting the Union, opening the doors of Congress for the South. This plan by Johnson provokes criticism from Radicals. The Ladies of Richmond focus on honoring and providing funds for injured and fallen Confederate soldiers while newly emancipated blacks struggle to find employment, food, shelter and other means of survival. Out of desperation, they are often left with no choice but to partake in criminal activity. The Freedmen's Bureau, African-American churches, and other black organizations in Virginia fight to get off the ground, uniting blacks and earning respect in the community. Racial tension and violence still continues throughout the South; riots appear to be coming to a close in Memphis where every single black church has been burned. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Last of the Memphis Riot- The Military in Full Possession- The Causes of the Troubles. From the Bulletin, May 4. Yesterday morning everything was quiet, as far as we could learn. No more arrests had been made. No casualties occurred from shooting last night that we heard of; in fact, there was little or no shooting; an occasional shot, perhaps, over the city, not at any person though. The fires that were mentioned in our last issue were in all parts of the city, but most of "them were in South Memphis, and were reported yesterday morning. The one, though, that occurred on Poplar street, and the one on the corner of Union and Overton streets (both of these were churches), were after we had gone to press; therefore we could make no report. Yesterday we visited again all the sites of this burning, and saw some very appalling things. The worst that we saw was a negro woman, who had been sick, j= being burned to death in a little cabin on South street, near the bridge, in front of the school-house occupied by Rankin, a negro teacher. The school-house was fired Wednesday evening by incendiaries, but this shanty was saved- although several around were burned - until about midnight, when it was fired. In this locality, nearly all being negroes who had witnessed the fighting for the last two days, and had seen so many of their color killed, would not stir for fear of meeting the same fate, and the few whites here were too much frightened to venture out to stop the fire in such a poor, miserable-looking hovel; consequently, we could not get many of the particulars of the sad occurrence. All we could gather was that the house was burned down, having been set on fire by some unknown person, and this woman, having been confined to her bed several days, was supposed to be unable to get from the house, or else, being asleep, had no time to make her escape. We were told that some supposed after the house was partly burned down, some one passing and hearing her cries pulled her out of the burning mass and laid her down at some little distance from the cabin, but her clothes caught from the sparks, and thus she died. Nearly all of her clothes was burned off, and an old shawl was spread over her. No marks of violence were to be seen on her body. This was truly an infamous deed, and all good citizens are speaking of it in the same way. Burning churches, school-houses, and dwellings of innocent persons is a crime that should not go unpunished by the civil authorities. There are no negro churches now standing within our knowledge, in the city. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18660508.1.2&dliv=none&st=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1866-05-08 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context BeamBrooke-18660508-Last of the Memphis Riot.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource The Last of the Memphis Riot.