Download or read book Mayhem in Memphis written by Malice in Memphis and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writers of Malice in Memphis understand that any time you get a big group of people together to go hog wild, there's a perfect opportunity for crime. Each of the tales in Mayhem in Memphis deals with murder or theft or some other action, polite - and not so polite - that society frowns on.Needless to say, the stories are fiction, and so are all the characters, but the settings are quite real.This is the fourth Malice in Memphis anthology of crime-ridden short stories set around the Memphis bluff.Read them all, why don't you?You'll have a blast.Contributing authors: Phyllis Appleby, Mary Balsamo, Kristi Bradley, Barbara Christopher, Juanita D. Houston, Larry Hoy, Lynn Maples, Carolyn McSparren, Elaine Meece, Geoffrey Meece, James C. Paavola, PhD, Jackie Ross Flaum, Angelyn Sherrod, and Dr. Susan Wooten.
Download or read book Memphis Mayhem written by David A. Less and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memphis gave birth to music that changed the world — Memphis Mayhem is a fascinating history of how music and culture collided to change the state of music forever “David Less has captured the essence of the Memphis music experience on these pages in no uncertain terms. There's truly no place like Memphis and this is the story of why that is. HAVE MERCY!” — Billy F Gibbons, ZZ Top Memphis Mayhem weaves the tale of the racial collision that led to a cultural, sociological, and musical revolution. David Less constructs a fascinating narrative of the city that has produced a startling array of talent, including Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Al Green, Otis Redding, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Justin Timberlake, and so many more. Beginning with the 1870s yellow fever epidemics that created racial imbalance as wealthy whites fled the city, David Less moves from W.C. Handy’s codification of blues in 1909 to the mid-century advent of interracial musical acts like Booker T. & the M.G.’s, the birth of punk, and finally to the growth of a music tourism industry. Memphis Mayhem explores the city’s entire musical ecosystem, which includes studios, high school band instructors, clubs, record companies, family bands, pressing plants, instrument factories, and retail record outlets. Lively and comprehensive, this is a provocative story of finding common ground through music and creating a sound that would change the world.
Download or read book Memphis Murder Mayhem written by Teresa R. Simpson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through Memphis’ troubled past: the shocking crimes and the brutal killings that led to it being dubbed the “Murder Capital of the World.” With its alluring hospitality, legendary cuisine and transcendent music, Memphis is truly a quintessential Southern city. But lurking behind the barbeque and blue suede shoes is a dark history checkered with violence and disarray. Revisit the mass murder of 1866 that took more than fifty lives, the infamous Alice Mitchell case of the 1890s and a string of unthinkable twentieth-century sins. Author and lifelong Memphian Teresa Simpson explores some of the River City’s most menacing crimes and notorious characters in this riveting ride back through the centuries. Includes photos!
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Download or read book Time Will Tell written by Autumn Reign and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time Will Tell: Mayhem in Memphis unfolds the compelling narrative of Autumn a resilient young girl raised amidst the harsh realities of the mean streets of Memphis. Born into adversity, Autumn's life takes an unexpected turn as she faces a series of trials and tribulations that force her to confront the shadows of her past and navigate the uncertain path to her future. From the vibrant streets of Memphis to the mystic allure of New Orleans, Autumn's journey becomes a poignant exploration of survival, strength, and self-discovery. As she strives to break free from the chains of her tumultuous upbringing, Autumn discovers an unwavering determination within herself. Haunted by the echoes of her troubled past, Autumn finds solace in the rich tapestry of New Orleans, a city steeped in history, culture, and an undeniable sense of magic. Guided by mentors and unexpected allies, she begins to unearth the hidden potential within her, transcending the limitations imposed by her upbringing. As Autumn builds new relationships and embraces the diverse communities of both cities, she discovers the power of resilience and the ability to rewrite her own narrative. The story delves into themes of identity, love, and the transformative nature of human connection, painting a vivid picture of a young girl's triumph over adversity against the backdrop of two iconic American cities. Time Will Tell: Mayhem in Memphis is an emotionally charged tale of strength, redemption, and the indomitable spirit that can rise even from the darkest corners of life. Through Autumn's journey, the narrative invites readers to reflect on their own capacity for growth and the possibility of finding light in the midst of life's most challenging storms.
Download or read book Mayhem in Memphis written by Carolyn McSparren and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memphis is a city that uses any excuse to party down.When times were hard after the Civil War, our response was to crank up the blues. When that nasty bug, the Boll Weevil, infested our lush fields of cotton, a group of tricksters put on boll weevil costumes and invaded parties, drank the hosts' bourbon, and danced with the ladies (whether they wanted to or not.)One week mid-May was chosen as a blow-out in praise of cotton and the money it brought to us. With the advent of other crops, however, the party became known merely as "Carnival." More recently it has expanded to laud the whole area during May, our last coolish month until October. Even with air conditioning, nobody can celebrate in high summertime down here.The stories in this anthology are centered loosely around this party that has kept our spirits up in one form or another through yellow fever epidemics, boom times and depressions, wartimes and peace times.The writers are members of our local mystery-writers group, Malice in Memphis. We understand that any time you get a big group of people together to go hog wild, there's a perfect opportunity for crime. Each of these tales deals with murder or theft or some other action, polite-and not so polite-that society frowns on. Needless to say, the stories are fiction, and so are all the characters.This is our fourth Malice in Memphis anthology of crime-ridden short stories set around the Memphis bluff. "Mayhem in Memphis" received the Imaginarium Convention's 2020 Imadjinn Award for Best Anthology.
Download or read book Memphis Mayhem The Twins Part 1 written by E. Antonio Woods and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin sisters Tiffany and Tara were seperated at an early age. Both twins trying to make it in this Dog eat Dog world. Tiffany being raised by a mother who does not want her and Tara being raised in the streets. After mutual friends introduce them to each other, they bond and devise a plan to make major money whoring doing freak shows. However after Tara's friend Terry falls in love with Tiffany, tension, jealousy and hatred develops between Tara and Terry. Follow the Drama of Mayhem and Intrigue of the sub-culture of Freak shows as Tara has to decide to save her twin she may have to sacrifice their friendship or even her life
Download or read book Remembering the Memphis Massacre written by Beverly G. Bond and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between (white) Memphis city police and a group of (all black) Union soldiers quickly escalated into "murder and mayhem." A mob of white men roamed through south Memphis, leaving a trail of blood, rubble, and terror in their wake. By May 3, at least forty-six African American men, women, and children and two white men lay dead. Other Memphians, mostly black but a few whites closely associated with the city's growing population of black migrants, lost their homes. Many were brutally assaulted. An unknown number of terrified blacks were driven out of the city. Every African American church and schoolhouse lay in ruins, homes and businesses burglarized and burned, and at least five women had been raped. As a federal military commander noted in the days following, "What [was] called the 'riot,'" was "in reality [a] massacre" of extended proportions. Remembering the Memphis Massacre is a collection of essays that will teach non-specialists about a history that has been hidden from all but academics for most of the past century and a half, thereby placing the Memphis Massacre in its wider historical context"
Download or read book Martin Luther King written by Christine Hatt and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Judge for Yourself' is a series that presents in-depth accounts of the lives of historically important people. Extensive primary evidence is quoted, both for and against the subjects, and readers are invited to make their own judgement.
Download or read book Memphis Mojo written by Gerald Duff and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.W. Ragsdale, a failed Mississippi cotton farmer turned Memphis homicide detective, along with his partner, Tyrone Walker is faced with a cowboy preacher, a home invasion, urban gangs, and a killer who sees spirits and converses with the dead. The setting is Memphis, a city haunted by the blues, rock and roll, magic, humor, and violence. J.W. and Tyrone must sort through another spell of mania on the Big River, and bring things back to a low rumble in a town where tough mojo hands, death, and high hilarity come together.
Download or read book To Tell the Truth Freely written by Mia Bay and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the troubled racial politics of her era. Though she eventually helped found the NAACP in 1910, she would not remain a member for long, as she rejected not only Booker T. Washington's accommodationism but also the moderating influence of white reformers within the early NAACP. In the richly illustrated "To Tell the Truth Freely," the historian Mia Bay vividly captures Wells's legacy and life, from her childhood in Mississippi to her early career in late-nineteenth-century Memphis and her later life in Progressive-era Chicago.
Download or read book Before the Devil Breaks You written by Libba Bray and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diviners are back in this thrilling and eerie third installment by #1 New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray. New York City.1927.Lights are bright.Jazz is king.Parties are wild.And the dead are coming... After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that early claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough of lies. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror. Out on Ward's Island, far from the city's bustle, sits a mental hospital haunted by the lost souls of people long forgotten--ghosts who have unusual and dangerous ties to the man in the stovepipe hat, also known as the King of Crows. With terrible accounts of murder and possession flooding in from all over, and New York City on the verge of panic, the Diviners must band together and brave the sinister ghosts invading the asylum, a fight that will bring them fact-to-face with the King of Crows. But as the explosive secrets of the past come to light, loyalties and friendships will be tested, love will hang in the balance, and the Diviners will question all that they've ever known. All the while, malevolent forces gather from every corner in a battle for the very soul of a nation--a fight that could claim the Diviners themselves. Heart-pounding action and terrifying moments will leave you breathless in the third book of the four-book Diviners series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray.
Download or read book Red Black White written by Mary Stanton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Red, Black, and White is the first narrative history of the American Communist movement in the South during the 1930s. Written from the perspective of the District #17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, [the author's] purpose is to acquaint a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on post-war black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans. After the Scottsboro story broke on March 25, 1931 it was open season for old fashioned lynchings, 'legal' (courtroom) lynchings, and mob murder. In Alabama alone, twenty black men were known to have been murdered and countless others, women included, were beaten, disabled, jailed, 'disappeared,' or had their lives otherwise ruined between March 1931 and September 1935. In this collective biography, Mary Stanton--a noted chronicler of the Left and social justice movements in the South--explains what resources Depression Era Reds worked with before those of either the New Deal or the modern Civil Rights Movement became available. What emerges from this narrative is a meaningful criterion to evaluate the Reds' accomplishments. They failed in some measure at everything they attempted--from labor organizing to exposing courtroom lynchings and institutional racism. Stanton looks at the Reds' strategies which in many cases made things worse by uniting angry white supremacists over their constant condemnation of the Southern Way of Life. Through seven cases of the CPUSA's activity in the South, Stanton covers tortured notions of loyalty and betrayal, the Cult of White Southern Womanhood, Christianity in all its iterations, and the scapegoating of Blacks, Jews, and communists. Yet this still is a story of how Blacks, Jews, and communists fought back, and fought together, for social justice and change"
Download or read book Voices from the Heartland written by William Brook Barlow and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Memphis Red Sox written by Keith B. Wood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Memphis's symbolic meaning and value as a Negro leagues baseball city during Jim Crow. It locates the main intersections between black professional baseball and the South in the four decades that spanned the modern Negro leagues era and analyzes the racial dynamics in the city through the lens of the Memphis Red Sox, a black-owned and operated organization that stood as a pillar of success. Baseball also provides a way to examine the racial inequalities and issues that pervaded the city in those years. A black-owned stadium served as a forum for political assertion and an arena for real political struggle for blacks in Memphis.
Download or read book The Battle of Islaag written by Josée Lefebvre and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling invincible, Overlord Aart Xerxes has arrived at the Bion with an insatiable will for power. The ruthless overlord plans to use the newly awakened Omorfians to help him conquer his rival kingdom, Islaag. But members of his entourage, including his wife’s brother Memphis, have formed a secret alliance against him. Will their plans to stop him work? Meanwhile, in the wake of the overlord’s arrival, fear and exhaustion from all the pain and loss overwhelm Leios and Emely as they scramble to join their comrades in Ignosi. There, the Omorfians must plan their next move: Will they return to the Sapien territory and fight or put their faith in their human allies, friends like Ferdi and the people of Islaag, to save them? Knowing Overlord Aart’s plans and not wanting any more bloodshed, Islaag’s overlord and empress hope Ambroos—Aart’s brother and the true overlord of Oever—will manage to stop the war before it starts. Wanting nothing more than a peaceful, simple life, Ambroos had been avoiding his duties, but knowing how evil his brother has become, he is willing to overthrow him. But will Ambroos be too late? The Battle of Islaag is the thrilling and dramatic conclusion to the enthralling Omorfia Trilogy.
Download or read book Walking Into a New Spirituality written by Calvin S. McBride and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Calvin McBride has shown us his unique literary ability in the life journey of Robert E. Hart's transition from one denomination (Christian Methodist Episcopal Church) to another (Church of God in Christ). He has plunged us into the history of not only an individual but has transported us as well into the history of African-Americans as it relates to the church as an institution." --Stevey M. Wilburn, pg. ii.
