Memphis survivor

This collection consists of records that document the U. Memphis Survivors Association. The majority of the collection is comprised of scrapbooks and audiocassettes that document their reunions, in addition to, the memorials and dedications organized by the association. Also included are association administrative records and memorabilia about the U. Naval History and Heritage Command.

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Papers Ainsworth, Walden L. Papers Alden, John D. Papers Alexander, George A. Papers Artz, William J. Papers Austin, Bernard L. Papers Badger, Oscar C. Papers Banister, Alan B. Papers Barash, Samuel T.

Papers Barbey, Daniel E. Papers Bard, Ralph A. Papers Beaman, Ronald F. Papers Behr, Esther N. Papers Behringer, Robert E. Papers Bell, Curtis R. Papers Bellinger, Patrick N. Papers Bemis, Harold M. Papers Bennett, Frank M. Papers Blackford, William M. Papers Blankenbaker, Marjorie L. Papers Boone, Alfred D. Papers Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc. Papers Bracken, John P. Papers Brantman, Richard H. Papers Breuer, William B. Papers Brewton, John C. Papers Bringle, William F. Papers Bromer, Edgar J.

Papers Brownson, Willard H. Papers Burnham, Ruth D. Scrapbook Burns, Robert L. Manson Papers Cambell, Dennis R. Papers Cash, John C. Papers Chadwick, French E. Papers Charters, Lloyd S. Papers Cochrane, Edward L. Papers Coggins, Cecil H. Papers Cook, Charles O. Papers Cooley, Wayne D. Papers Cooper, Charles W. Papers Cotton, Charles S. Family Papers Cowart, Virgil A. Papers Cowley, Harry L.

Papers Cramer, Ambrose C. Papers Crawford, Michael J. Papers Crosley, Paul C. Papers Daniel, John C. Papers Davidson, Chester R. Papers Davis, Roy W. Papers Delano, Francis H. Papers Delany, Walter S. Papers Denfeld, Louis E. Papers Denny, Elizabeth S. Papers Dobson, Cleo J. Papers Donovan, Ralph H. Papers Dutton, Benjamin Jr. Papers Dutton, Benson L. Papers DuVal, Miles P. Papers Dyer, George C. Papers Eller, Ernest M. Papers Ellyson, Theodore G.

Papers English, Robert A. Papers Evans, Joseph S. Papers Farnum, Walter W. Papers Forrestal, James V. In the wake of the Civil War, testifying about sexual assault was how Thompson and other black women asserted their new citizenship and right to bodily protection.

These women challenged racist white beliefs that black women were always sexually available, and took advantage of the burgeoning freedoms that Reconstruction offered. Refusing to allow African Americans to step outside of racial and gendered norms, whites strictly dictated how African Americans could live their lives in public and private. When freed people, like Thompson, did not adhere to these norms, whites used violence—sometimes through the Ku Klux Klan, sometimes through prison labor—to punish them for their aberrations.

By arresting, imprisoning, and essentially murdering Thompson, white Memphians showed that, to them, Reconstruction was over. Freed people would no longer be allowed to define their lives. They must follow racial and gendered dictums or be punished. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat, July 15, Pingback: Hey SoCal.

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