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Rediscovering the Delta

A long-lost study of the Mississippi Delta reveals the source of the blues By Jonathan Frey, for Chapter16.org In the early 1940s, Fisk University scholars…

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Beale Street: Home of … a Neighborhood

Tiara Campbell April 8, 2020 8 Comments Beale Street Downtown Memphis Historic District Historic Neighborhood Home of the Blues Memphis Memphis Heritage Keystone Memphis Housing Authority Stanley Booth Urban Renewal

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…