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Category: Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline Memphis

Important highlights and events in the month in Memphis history, from Memphis author, historian and StoryBoard correspondent Wayne Dowdy.

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Dateline: May-July 1906

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Your correspondent takes you on a police raid of local gambling dens, lets you ride on a segregated streetcar, guides you to the many Fourth…

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From the Archives: Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis March 2020

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Looking back at March, 2020, when the world stopped. By Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent shares some of his Covid-19 experiences and offers historical context for…

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Dateline: Memphis November 1931 – January 1932

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  This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue I of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in November 2021, page 13. ____________________ By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent reports…

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Dateline, Boxtown: Memphis, March 17, 2021

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Your correspondent returns after witnessing a healthy community resistance A lot has happened since last I shared my thoughts with you. Insurrectionists and white supremacists…

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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, October 15, 2020

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By G. Wayne Dowdy In this week’s letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of The Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever…

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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: October 7, 2020

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By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent writes another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow…

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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, September 30, 2020

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By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent reflects on the differences and similarities between the Covid-19 pandemic and World War II in another letter to Colonel…

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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, September 23, 2020

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By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent surveys the disruptions of American life due to the Covid-19 pandemic in another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating,…

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Dateline: Memphis September 16, 2020

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By G. Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel J. M. Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…

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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: An Elvis Story, Memphis, August 20, 2020

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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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