News from Around the South 5/27 – 6/3

Tennessee: Group Challenges Naming of Memphis Parks MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Several plaintiffs have filed suit against the renaming of Confederate-themed city parks in Memphis, asserting only the mayor can change park names. According to The Commercial Appeal, nine...
Surveying Emancipation

Surveying Emancipation

President Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863 lent new urgency to the question of “what shall we do with the Negroes.” What had been only a possibility a few months before — the freeing of more than 3 million slaves still behind...