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Shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday, a crowd of roughly 300 protesters walked up the Front Street ramp and onto the Hernando de Soto bridge. The protest was organized by Memphis Voices for Palestine and ...
The Memphis chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement initially planned to meet at Martyrs Park; upon realizing that the park was closed, protesters began moving towards the Harahan Bridge along Interstate 55. Protesters began dissipating around 9 p.m. [6] [7] [8] Nichols' family gathered at Tobey Skatepark, a local skatepark in Memphis, to ...
Protests unfolded across the U.S. on Friday night after body camera footage and surveillance video showing Memphis, Tenn., police officers brutally beating Tyre Nichols to death were released.
On the evening of January 31, 2023, a ceremony and press conference with Nichols's family was held at the Mason Temple Church in Memphis, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his final speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop" in 1968. [126] Nichols's funeral was held the next day at the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis. [126]
Silent demonstrations of around 40 people protesting the murder of Floyd, the death of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, and the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, led to "verbal confrontations" with Memphis police and two counter-protesters from the Facebook group Confederate 901. [51] On May 27, protesters shut down Union Avenue near McLean Boulevard. [52]
In Memphis, where Nichols — a 29-year-old Black man who died on Jan. 10, three days after five officers tased, pepper-sprayed and assaulted him — around 100 protesters blocked the Interstate ...
In Memphis, around 100 protesters blocked the Interstate 55 bridge in both directions, bringing semitrucks and other vehicles to a halt. Demonstrators filled New York City’s Times Square ...
The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith launched the event on June 5, 1966, [1] intending to make a solitary walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi via the Mississippi Delta, starting at Memphis's Peabody Hotel and proceeding to the Mississippi state line, then continuing through, respectively, the ...