History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2276 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Memphis and New Orleans
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The idea
Violent race riots broke out in Memphis, Tennessee and in New Orleans, Louisiana in eighteen sixty-six, giving urgency to a second phase of Reconstruction.
In practice
Two cities under civil government, with no Confederate army anywhere in the field.
Where people slip
The riots answered the question of whether the southern state governments Johnson recognised would protect freed people. They would not.
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