Memphis

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/10/2023
  

  In Memphis, Tyre Nichols's Killing Echoes 1866 Massacre

  by Isaiah Stafford and Kathy Roberts Forde

  In the aftermath of the Civil War, Memphis was a city in political upheaval in which policing became a method of reasserting white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/8/2023
  

  Evaluating the Perpetually Forthcoming Racial Reckoning

  Journalist Wesley Lowery turns to a rereading of James Baldwin and Derrick Bell to consider how the racial identity of the officers who beat Tyre Nichols to death fits into the history of American racism. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/6/2022
  

  Stax Records Co-Founder Jim Stewart Dies at 92

  Stewart's label in its heyday trailed only Motown Records as a purveyor of soul music, and the label's house bands created a distinctive and enduring style associated with Memphis. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12-21-17
  

  Memphis's Novel Strategy for Tearing Down Confederate Statues

  In a surprise move Wednesday evening, the city sold two parks to a nonprofit corporation that promptly tore down monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis.

• SOURCE: AP
  4-3-13
  

  45 years after King was killed supporting them, Memphis sanitation workers fighting for jobs

  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — They rode the streets of Memphis in creaky, dangerous garbage trucks, picking up trash from home after home, toiling for a sanitation department that treated them with indifference bordering on disdain. In 1968 those workers took to the streets, marching with civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to demand better working conditions, higher pay and union protection.Forty-five years after King was killed supporting their historic strike, some of the same men who marched with him still pick up Memphis’ garbage — and now they are fighting to hold on to jobs that some city leaders want to hand over to a private company....

• SOURCE: WSJ
  3-20-13
  

  KKK to protest park renaming

  Officials in Memphis, Tenn., are girding for a rally called by a faction of the Ku Klux Klan at the end of the month, to protest the City Council's decision earlier this year to change the name of three Confederate-themed city parks.The council voted Feb. 5 to change the names of Confederate Park, Jefferson Davis Park, named for the Confederacy's president, and Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, named for a Confederate lieutenant general who was also the KKK's first grand wizard. The new names are Memphis Park, Mississippi River Park and Health Sciences Park, respectively, though the council may change those names later.The council's move came in response to a bill moving through the Tennessee Legislature this year that would forbid local governments from changing names of any parks or monuments named for wars or war heroes, including those involving the Civil War....