The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_riots_of_1866" id="mwkA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Memphis riots of 1866">Memphis Race Riots</a> begin. Over three days, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" id="mwkQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution</a>.<sup about="#mwt50" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_1#cite_note-8" id="mwkg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwkw">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt47" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDattel2011">Dattel, Eugene R. (2011). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VllSQthtskkC" id="mwBxc" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBxg">Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power</i></a>. Lanham, Md.: Ivan R. Dee. pp.<span id="mwBxk" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>250–252. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBxo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBxs" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-56663-968-2" id="mwBxw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-56663-968-2"><bdi id="mwBx0">978-1-56663-968-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt47" class="Z3988" id="mwBx4" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Cotton+and+Race+in+the+Making+of+America%3A+The+Human+Costs+of+Economic+Power&amp;rft.place=Lanham%2C+Md.&amp;rft.pages=250-252&amp;rft.pub=Ivan+R.+Dee&amp;rft.date=2011&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-56663-968-2&amp;rft.aulast=Dattel&amp;rft.aufirst=Eugene+R.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DVllSQthtskkC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+1"></span></span>