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A 2015 attempt by the Memphis City Council to remove the statue was blocked by the Tennessee Historical Commission in 2016. [8] In September 2017, the Memphis City Council passed an ordinance to remove Confederate statues from public parks, including the Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument and the Jefferson Davis Monument, after October 13, 2017, due in part to increased police expenditure, to ...
Kenneth P'pool, who chaired the Nathan Bedford Forrest Bust Committee of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 1973 (P'pool reportedly also earlier supported the candidacy of George Wallace for president in 1968), the late Tennessee state Senator and Sons of Confederate Veterans Joseph E. Johnston Camp 28 member Douglas Henry (D-Nashville), and the late Civil War expert and collector Lanier ...
Beale Street in 1974 Beale Street in 2014 Rex Billiard Hall for Colored, Beale Street, 1939.Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.. Beale Street was created in 1841 by entrepreneur and developer Robertson Topp (1807–1876), who soon named it later in the decade for Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a military hero from the Mexican–American War.
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A half century ago, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis to march in support of the city's striking sanitation workers.
Memphis B.B. King Elvis Presley Welcome Center 35°03′40″N 90°01′27″W / 35.06117636919467°N 90.02412747865334°W / 35.06117636919467; -90.02412747865334
MEMPHIS MUSIC: From Elvis to B.B. King, ... Jordan Lugar, of the Lugar Bronze Foundry in Arlington, which cast the bronze Cash statue, and Memphis artist Yvonne Bobo, who specializes in large ...