Civil War and the Summer of 2020

Hilary N. Green (Edited By) Hilary N. Green is James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies, Africana Studies Department, Davidson College. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016), as well as numerous essays and articles. She is currently at work on two projects: a book manuscript examining how everyday African Americans remembered and commemorated the Civil War, and a digital humanities project on Black Civil War memory.Andrew L. Slap (Edited By) Andrew L. Slap is a Professor of history at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era (Fordham). He is also the editor or co-editor of three volumes on the Civil War era. His current book project is "African American Communities during Slavery, War, and Peace: Memphis in the Nineteenth Century."Andre E. Johnson (Foreword By) Andre E. Johnson is a professor of Communication Studies at the University of Memphis. He is the author of three national award-winning books, The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition (2012), The Struggle Over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter (with Amanda Nell Edgar, Ph.D., 2018), and No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (2020). He is also the editor of the forthcoming Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit (2023) and Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition (with Kimberly P. Johnson, Ph.D., and Wallis C. Baxter IV, Ph.D., 2023).

• Foreword: Telling the Story: George Floyd and the Legacy of Black TruthAndre E. Johnson xiiiPreface xxiIntroductionHilary N. Green 1Violence1 White Supremacy, the American Militia, and the Legacy of the Civil War EraBarbara A. Gannon 132 African Americans and Native Americans in North Carolina During the Summer of 2020:The Struggle for People of Color to Find a Shared Civil War–Era MemoryJaime Amanda Martinez 203 Witnessing Ned Scott's Coffin: Spectacular Police Violence in the Age of EmancipationJohn Bardes 284 Abaline Miller and the Struggle for Justice against the Employer Police State after SlaveryWilliam Horne 38Resistance5 From Eagle Buttons to Face Masks: The Dangers of Expressing Racial EqualityEmmanuel Dabney 496 "Give Me My Rights": Patriotism and Protest Among Black Civil WarSoldiers and Black Lives Matter ActivistsJonathan Lande 577 A Lens Through Which We Can View Society: Sports and Race in AmericaDaryl A. Carter 668 Slave Agency, the Emancipation Monument, and History's ReckoningKaren Cook Bell 749 Fighting for Black Humanity: Political Action of Post-Emancipation Black ChristiansNicole Myers Turner 8110 Jim Crow Then, Jim Crow Now: Police Violence, Tort Law, and BlackResistance in the Twentieth and Twenty-First CenturiesMyisha S. Eatmon 9011 "How wonderful a country": Black Lives Matter and the Long History of Aboriginal ResistanceSamuel Watts 97Memory12 Carpetbagging the Colfax Riot MarkerLeeAnna Keith 10713 "Moving History": The Life and Afterlife of Louisville's Confederate MonumentAnne E. Marshall 11314 Goodbye, Calhoun. What's Next?: The Future of Charleston's Commemorative LandscapeAdam H. Domby 12215 "Back at Bragg": Civil War Memory and the US ArmyBeau Cleland 13116 There's still no balm in Gilead: The Fatal Costs of Traumatic MemoryScott Hancock 140Acknowledgments 151List of Contributors 153Index 157

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