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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 ...
Protest in Columbus, Ohio. Following the release of the video, protesters in Memphis blocked traffic on Interstate 55. [133] By January 28, protests had also occurred in New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Portland, Atlanta, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, and Newark. [134] [135]
The old bridge on I-55 from Memphis to Arkansas, the main thoroughfare with the Hernando De Soto bridge still closed for construction on Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
The I-55 bridge between Memphis and West Memphis will be closed Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024 to 6 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, due to construction
The bridge is named for 16th century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who explored this stretch of the Mississippi River and died south of Memphis. [8] Hernando de Soto Bridge illuminated at night in 2015. At night, the bridge was illuminated by 200 sodium vapor lights along its "M" structure. The bridge was first illuminated on September 5 ...
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The Memphis & Arkansas Bridge, ... Construction on the bridge began on September 12, 1945, and the bridge opened to traffic on December 17, 1949. [7] [8] Later history