The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 (EPUB) von Hilary N. Green

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