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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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, August 12, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent shares with Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…
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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: Memphis July 15, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…
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Look Ma, I Amended the U.S. Constitution!
By John Matthews Next month marks the 100th anniversary of universal women’s suffrage in America. The right for all females to vote in all elections was secured…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: July 4th, and a Letter to his grand nieces and nephews
By G. Wayne Dowdy On Independence Day your correspondent writes a letter to his seven year old grandniece Mallorie Pierce and grandnephews, six year old…
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An Integrated, United Independence
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JULY 3, 2020: A cohesive, book-ended 16-day celebration of unified American Independence starting on June 19th and culminating on July 4th could be…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: July 1, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy The loss of life weighs heavily on your correspondent as he writes another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor…
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