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The Tall but True Tale of Private Pease, veteran kid of WWII & Vietnam

John Matthews November 11, 2020 No Comments Veterans World War II

For Veterans’ Day, an East Tennessee kid who served in two wars By John Mathews Normally I confine myself to compelling tales specific to Memphis…

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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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Women’s Suffrage in Memphis and Beyond

StoryBoard News Board August 19, 2020 No Comments 19th Amendment Memphis Public Libraries Votes For Women Women's Suffrage

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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Gordon School: An Episode from Memphis, Part II

Sophia Mason August 13, 2020 No Comments Black Lives Matter Desegregation Gordon Elementary School Northside High School School Busing

Two of the Memphis 13, and Four Periods of Desegregation in the Shelby County School System WITNESSES TO HISTORY By Sophia Mason Gordon School: An Episode…

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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: July 1, 2020

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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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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: June 25, 2020

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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

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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

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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

Wayne Dowdy June 5, 2020 No Comments Black Lives Matter Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Wayne Dowdy

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

Chapter16 Community April 19, 2020 No Comments Chapter16 Civil Rights Movement Jessica Ingram

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…