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AutoZone Park was the site of the 2016 Triple-A National Championship Game in which the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, champions of the International League, defeated the PCL-champion El Paso Chihuahuas, 3–1, before a crowd of 9,471 people on September 20. [17]
Lewis' sons Clarence Lewis and Robert Lewis Jr. took over the family business. Robert Lewis Jr. became a business leader in Memphis, and was noted for his efforts at establishing T. O. Fuller State Park. Other noted achievements include advocating for the hiring of the first African-American firefighters in Memphis in 1955, being the first ...
Thomas Waterson — police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in a Memphis raid in 1933 Luke J. Weathers (1920–2011) — former U.S. Army Air Force officer and member of Tuskegee Airmen [ 9 ] Ida B. Wells — civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
AutoZone Park serves as home to the Triple-A baseball team the Memphis Redbirds, as well as Memphis 901 FC of the USL Championship. Nearly 13 million fans have passed through its gates since the ...
On January 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was fatally injured by five black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, and died three days later. The officers, all members of the Memphis Police Department (MPD) SCORPION [a] unit, pulled Nichols from his car before pepper spraying and tasering him. Nichols broke free and ran toward ...
John Park: 1861–1864 Thomas H. Harris: 1864 Channing Richards: 1864–1865 John Park (2nd term) 1865–1866 William Lofland: 1866–1868 Edgar M. McDavitt: 1868 John W. Leftwich: 1868–1869 John T. Swayne: 1869 John W. Leftwich (2nd term) 1869–1870 John Johnson: 1870–1874 John Loague: 1874–1876 John R. Flippin: 1876–1879 (None) 1879 ...
The Memphis Redbirds said they hoped Memphis 901 FC's relocation will serve as a "sobering reminder" of needed investment at AutoZone Park.
The deaths of Cole and Walker proved to be the catalyst for the Memphis sanitation strike. On February 11, ten days after their deaths, union Local 1733 held a strike meeting where over 400 workers complained that the city refused to provide decent wages and working conditions. The workers wanted immediate action but the city refused. [7]