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