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DescriptionFreedmen's Schoolhouse Burns in 1866 Memphis Riot.jpg
English: Illustration in Harper's Weekly of the Memphis Riots of 1866
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Tennessee State Library and Archive: Tennessee Virtual Archive
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Alfred Rudolph Waud; Harper's Weekly, 26 May 1866
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this shows a schoolhouse being burned to ashes during the Memphis riot.
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