We celebrate Women’s Equality Day on August 26th to commemorate Colby’s certification of the Nineteenth Amendment, but for many Americans, August 18th was the day…
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The Negro Leagues Come To Memphis
This article was originally published both in print and online in the summer of 2019 – we have updated it and are republishing for the…
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Union Avenue Anthology. Part I, The Plan of Memphis: 1783-1827
A History of Memphis’ Most Maligned Street “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner’s famous line, from his 1951 novel Requiem…
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Chapter16: Giving Women a Voice
Vivien Mildenberger paints a picture of an obscure Tennessee figure in the fight for women’s suffrage By Julie Danielson for Chapter16.org In 1920, Harry Burn…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: June 25, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent reports on how the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests are affecting the Bluff City in another…
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Before LibertyLand: MEMORIES of the Old FAIRGROUNDS AMUSEMENT PARK
Nothing says summer like the Fairgrounds. And nothing says Memphis like the old Fairgrounds of Memphis memories, a perfect diversion during these challenging times as…
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Jim Crow had no borders
Originally published in September, 2018 By Mark Fleischer It was called The Mother Road. The Will Rogers Highway. The Main Street of America. It was…
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Dateline: Memphis May 27 2020
By Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic, your…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis: May 1897. Spirits, Sightings, May-hem
Your correspondent takes you to points across the city including Beale Street, the Criminal Courts, Odd Fellows Hall, the Lyceum Theater, and Virginia Avenue, where…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis April 22, 2020
Your correspondent continues to report on the COVID-19 Pandemic and how it is affecting the Bluff City with another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating,…
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