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The Memphis 13 are the group of young children who integrated the schools of Memphis, Tennessee. On October 3, 1961, 13 African-American first grade students were enrolled in schools that were previously all white. The schools that the students attended were Bruce, Gordon, Rozelle, and Springdale elementary schools. [1]
Memphis was commissioned on 4 February 1925, with future Admiral, Captain Henry E. Lackey in command. [3] Memphis was 550 feet (170 metres) long at the waterline with an overall length of 555 feet 6 inches (169.32 metres), her beam was 55 feet 4 inches (16.87 metres) and a mean draft of 13 feet 6 inches (4.11 metres
List of shipwrecks: 13 January 2021 Ship State Description Yong Feng Panama: The bulk carrier was abandoned in the Philippine Sea 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) south-east of Miyakojima, Japan. Her 22 crew were rescued by a Taiwanese fishing vessel. She was on a voyage from Papua New Guinea to China. [6]
A standard canal boat that broke loose from tug at Proctor Shoal, Lake Champlain. [46] General Butler United States: 9 December 1876 A sailing canal boat that hit breakwater near Burlington on Lake Champlain. [47] O.J. Walker United States: 11 May 1895 A sailing canal boat sunk in a gale near Burlington. [48] Phoenix United States: 4 September 1819
USS Memphis (CL-13), was an Omaha-class light cruiser, saw action in World War II; USNS Memphis (T-AO-162), was a Cumberland-class fleet oiler acquired by the US Navy 28 November 1956 and transferred to the US Army in 1967; USS Memphis (SSN-691), is a Los Angeles-class submarine launched 3 April 1976 and decommissioned in 2011
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.
Dwania Kyles, one of three students who integrated Bruce Elementary in 1961, looks back at a mural painted of her by muralist Jamond Bullock at Bruce Elementary on Friday Jan. 17, 2020.
A lotion bottle helped Memphis police arrest a woman who allegedly stole $1,500 worth of merchandise from a Walgreens over a year ago, according to court records. Sedtrice Curry, 31, was booked in ...