Civil Wrongs
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Civil Wrongs is a project of the Institute for Public Service Reporting in collaboration with WKNO-FM. Here, we analyze the present-day effects of historical cases of racial terror in Memphis and the Mid-South.
© 2023 Civil Wrongs
Civil Wrongs is a project of the Institute for Public Service Reporting in collaboration with WKNO-FM. Here, we analyze the present-day effects of historical cases of racial terror in Memphis and the Mid-South.
© 2023 Civil Wrongs
Dwania Kyles, one of the Memphis 13 who integrated schools in 1961, shares her healing journey from racial trauma.
Miniature paintings by artist Ephraim Urevbu are now embedded in the sidewalk with QR codes that link to difficult stories of America’s racial past.
The Weakley County Reconciliation Project encourages conversations around race and works to memorialize lynching victims.
How people are connecting past and present for a better future
Elaine Massacre of 1919
The Elaine Massacre of 1919
The Elaine Massacre of 1919
The racist caricature that Black people are inherently lazy and morally corrupt is also widely used to characterize people with addiction – and some treatment facilities may be capitalizing on that misrepresentation to pay for their programming through "work therapy."
Slavery was still happening in eastern Arkansas in the 1930s — seven decades after Emancipation.
After the Civil War, Black people had secured their freedom. But even though they were legally free, they were far from equal. Over three days in May 1866, these issues would come to a head in the streets when white citizens lashed out in what would become known as the Memphis Massacre.
After the Civil War, Black people had secured their freedom. But even though they were legally free, they were far from equal. Over three days in May 1866, these issues would come to a head in the streets when white citizens lashed out in what would become known as the Memphis Massacre.
After the Civil War, Black people had secured their freedom. But even though they were legally free, they were far from equal. Over three days in May 1866, these issues would come to a head in the streets when white citizens lashed out in what would become known as the Memphis Massacre.
After the Civil War, Black people had secured their freedom. But even though they were legally free, they were far from equal. Over three days in May 1866, these issues would come to a head in the streets when white citizens lashed out in what would become known as the Memphis Massacre.
S1E3: False confessions today
S1E1: The Lynching
S1E2: The Descendants
Trailer: The Lynching of Ell Persons
S5E5: Weaving history into community development
May 6, 20255min 59sec
In this Memphis neighborhood, the economic potential of its future is just as important as the telling of its past. The Klondike Smokey City Community Development Corporation has been working for years to provide affordable homeownership for residents while also preserving its history.
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