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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Dateline: Memphis November 1931 – January 1932
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue I of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in November 2021, page 13. ____________________ By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent reports…
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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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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, October 15, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy In this week’s letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of The Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: October 7, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent writes another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, September 30, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent reflects on the differences and similarities between the Covid-19 pandemic and World War II in another letter to Colonel…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, September 23, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent surveys the disruptions of American life due to the Covid-19 pandemic in another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating,…
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Dateline: Memphis September 16, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel J. M. Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, August 12, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent shares with Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: July 4th, and a Letter to his grand nieces and nephews
By G. Wayne Dowdy On Independence Day your correspondent writes a letter to his seven year old grandniece Mallorie Pierce and grandnephews, six year old…
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