This story was originally published in October, 2017 Directly north of Central Gardens, Union Avenue has for generations served as its de facto Main Street.…
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‘ANARCHY IN MEMPHIS’ Looking Back At The Infamous 1978 Fire (and Police) Department Strikes
A half-mile away, a two-alarm blaze was consuming the library on Vance. Once known as the “colored branch,” the Vance Library was the prime repository…
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From the Archives: Coverage of the 1968 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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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis February – April 1962
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. Your correspondent takes you to events that occurred in February, March,…
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Who Is The Hiker & Why Is He There?
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue I of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in November 2021. Looking out over the Central and East Parkway intersection, tucked back…
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The Shell’s Next Stage: Welcome to the Overton Park Shell
Meant for Memphis: The Shell’s Next Stage Looks to Memphis Community for Ongoing Support and Vision for the Future At 10 a.m. on March 3…
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Dorothy Day House: Providing Homes for Families
“If you need it in your house, we need it in our house times nine.” – Sister Maureen, Executive Director of the Dorothy Day House…
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Fire and Ice: Ice Storm 2022
Fire and Ice: Ice Storm 2022 “We are all fine. Our house is not.” I have texted, emailed, and repeated those words in my heart…
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Water is Wonderful for Clean Memphis and International Paper
No longer are teachers urging students to simply pick up litter and put it in the trash. Instead, teachers are being trained by Clean Memphis…
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Chapter16: Lifting the Veil on Slavery
Wayne Dowdy documents the history of enslaved African Americans in Memphis By Aram Goudsouzian for Chapter16.org originally published November 17, 2021 Whenever one of my…
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