Beale Street Brass Note Ceremonies Upcoming After two years of no presentation ceremonies due to pandemic and brass supplier issues, the Beale Street Brass Note…
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Elliott Schwab Interview: The A. Schwab Project
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue III of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in the summer of 2022. If you walk through A. Schwab’s doors, take a…
Read More Elliott Schwab Interview: The A. Schwab ProjectStoryBoard announces the A. Schwab Project: A Complete History
StoryBoard embarks on its most ambitious project to-date with a complete history and archive of Memphis’ most enduring and famous store Both from original content…
Read More StoryBoard announces the A. Schwab Project: A Complete HistoryRemembering Robert Johnson
From Chapter16: Brother Robert provides a human perspective on the man who changed American music By Michael Ray Taylor, for Chapter16.org The city of Memphis plays…
Read More Remembering Robert JohnsonWayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis: May 1897. Spirits, Sightings, May-hem
Your correspondent takes you to points across the city including Beale Street, the Criminal Courts, Odd Fellows Hall, the Lyceum Theater, and Virginia Avenue, where…
Read More Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis: May 1897. Spirits, Sightings, May-hemBeale Street: Home of … a Neighborhood
NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD Today’s neon Home of the Blues district was once a thriving Memphis neighborhood By Tiara Campbell Beale Street is the Home of the…
Read More Beale Street: Home of … a NeighborhoodThe Universal Life Insurance Building: Designing a Better Memphis
“I can only surmise that the founders of Universal Life wanted to make a statement.” Juan Self, Self + Tucker Architects By Margot Payne “To…
Read More The Universal Life Insurance Building: Designing a Better Memphis‘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,…
Read More ‘ANARCHY IN MEMPHIS’ Looking Back At The Infamous 1978 Fire (and Police) Department StrikesWelcome to The Equitable Issue
“You never really know a man until you understand things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in…
Read More Welcome to The Equitable Issue1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike in the White Press
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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