The 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 Truth Andre E. Johnson xiii Preface xxi Introduction Hilary N. Green 1 Violence 1 White Supremacy, the American Militia, and the Legacy of the Civil War Era Barbara A. Gannon 13 2 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 Memory Jaime Amanda Martinez 20 3 Witnessing Ned Scott's Coffin: Spectacular Police Violence in the Age of Emancipation John Bardes 28 4 Abaline Miller and the Struggle for Justice against the Employer Police State after Slavery William Horne 38 Resistance 5 From Eagle Buttons to Face Masks: The Dangers of Expressing Racial Equality Emmanuel Dabney 49 6 "Give Me My Rights": Patriotism and Protest Among Black Civil War Soldiers and Black Lives Matter Activists Jonathan Lande 57 7 A Lens Through Which We Can View Society: Sports and Race in America Daryl A. Carter 66 8 Slave Agency, the Emancipation Monument, and History's Reckoning Karen Cook Bell 74 9 Fighting for Black Humanity: Political Action of Post-Emancipation Black Christians Nicole Myers Turner 81 10 Jim Crow Then, Jim Crow Now: Police Violence, Tort Law, and Black Resistance in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Myisha S. Eatmon 90 11 "How wonderful a country": Black Lives Matter and the Long History of Aboriginal Resistance Samuel Watts 97 Memory 12 Carpetbagging the Colfax Riot Marker LeeAnna Keith 107 13 "Moving History": The Life and Afterlife of Louisville's Confederate Monument Anne E. Marshall 113 14 Goodbye, Calhoun. What's Next?: The Future of Charleston's Commemorative Landscape Adam H. Domby 122 15 "Back at Bragg": Civil War Memory and the US Army Beau Cleland 131 16 There's still no balm in Gilead: The Fatal Costs of Traumatic Memory Scott Hancock 140 Acknowledgments 151 List of Contributors 153 Index 157

Those who are interested in more current affairs connections to Civil War memory and the conflict's present social and political relevance will want to read this book.-- "Emerging Civil War" Hilary Green and Andy Slap, two extraordinary scholars of the Civil War era, have gathered a diverse group of historians to illuminate anti-Black racism in the past and present. The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 offers a mix of well-established and up-and-coming experts who detail topics that are both familiar and unknown--policing, monuments, sports, religion, resistance, and the Civil War's impact on Australia and its Indigenous peoples. This collection of impressive essays takes a much-needed communal approach by having scholars lead history-curious readers back in time to understand the present. This book is essential reading for anyone who understands the importance of a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of history as a resource for building a more just world.---Kidada E. Williams, author of I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction, and host of the Seizing Freedom podcast.