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374 Vance Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Number of locations. 2. Website. rslewisandsonsfuneralhome .com. R.S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home has operated continuously in downtown Memphis, Tennessee since 1914. The home has held services for many prominent African-Americans, including Benjamin Hooks and Martin Luther King Jr.
Amanda Hanson, a Tennessee journalist who was the leader of digital innovation for NBC affiliate WMC, has died, the Memphis station announced. Amanda Hanson, 'beloved' Tennessee journalist, dies at 38
The first memorial service following the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, took place the following day at the R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis, Tennessee. This was followed by two funeral services on April 9, 1968, in Atlanta, Georgia, the first held for family and close friends at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King ...
90001867 [1] Added to NRHP. January 31, 1991. Pond and fountain next to the Crystal Shrine Grotto. Memorial Park Cemetery was founded in 1924 by E. Clovis Hinds on initial 54 acres (.22 km 2). [2] It is located at 5668 Poplar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. Different species of trees of different ages, as well as bushes, can be found throughout ...
Gov. Winfield Dunn, center, delivers his budget address to a joint session of the General Assembly Jan. 11, 1973, under the watchful eyes of Lt. Gov. John Wilder, left, and House Speaker Ned ...
Killing of Tyre Nichols. 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.
D'Army Bailey (November 29, 1941 – July 12, 2015) was an American lawyer, circuit court judge, civil rights activist, author, and film actor. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, he served as a city councilman in Berkeley, California, from 1971 to 1973. Bailey was the founder of the National Civil Rights Museum which opened in 1991 at ...
George Klein was born on October 8, 1935, in Memphis, Tennessee, to immigrant parents, a Russian Jewish mother and Polish Jewish father who had both fled antisemitism in Europe. He grew up in an observant Orthodox Jewish home. [3] [4] He met Elvis Presley when both were 13 years old in the eighth grade in 1948 at Humes High School.