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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Category: Witnesses To History
Memphis News and History as it was happening, by those who witnessed it
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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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: June 17, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Appeal newspaper during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis June 10, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Responding to the ongoing injustices experienced by black Americans, your correspondent pens a letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis: June 2, 2020
Your correspondent reacts to the violence scarring our land by drafting a letter to the nation’s greatest civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
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Paths of Resistance
Multimedia artist Jessica Ingram explores the South’s racist history in Road Through Midnight By Kim Green, for Chapter16.org In the preface of Road Through Midnight, Jessica Ingram…
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Gordon School: An Episode from Memphis
Two of the Memphis 13, and Four Periods of Desegregation in the Shelby County School System WITNESSES TO HISTORY By Sophia Mason As a first…
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‘ANARCHY IN MEMPHIS’ Looking Back At The Infamous 1978 Fire (and Police) Department Strikes
1978. Forty-one years ago this summer the Memphis Fire Department Strike left over 200 structures in ruins. To hear witnesses, journalists and historians recall it,…
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“CITY’S GARBAGE COLLECTORS STRIKE”
March to Mace: The Sanitation Strike before Martin Luther King Jr.’s invitation to Memphis, and a look at Memphis newspaper coverage of the first few weeks…
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“Garbage Truck Kills 2 Crewmen”
February 2, 1968 “Packing Unit Is Apparently Activated By Accident, Crushes Employees” The Commercial Appeal reporter Joseph Thompson’s stark headline made the front page that…
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