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Ruby Wilson (February 29, 1948 – August 12, 2016) was an American blues and gospel singer. She was known as "The Queen of Beale Street" as she sang in clubs on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, for over 40 years.
Monogram Foods is a privately held, Memphis, Tennessee-based, manufacturer and marketer of packaged and value-added foods.The company, which distributes its products nationwide, operates manufacturing and distribution facilities in Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
This robot is intended to keep the rising crime in Memphis away from the hotel and its guests. The autonomous machine runs 24-7 and recharges itself without human involvement.
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In 1960 he made his first recordings with his 17-year-old daughter Carla, for the Satellite label in Memphis, which changed its name to Stax the following year. The song, "Cause I Love You", featuring a rhythm borrowed from Jesse Hill's "Ooh Poo Pa Doo", was a regional hit; the musicians included Thomas' son Marvell on keyboards, Steinberg, and the 16-year-old Booker T. Jones.
At the time, the Club Handy was one of three Black nightclubs in downtown Memphis to hold a cabaret license and allow dancing on the premises. The other two nightclubs were the Flamingo, on Hernando, and the Tropicana at 1331 Thomas. [10] In 1965, Mitchell opened the Club Paradise at 645 E. Georgia Avenue in Memphis. He continued to run the ...
King was assassinated the evening before the second march. It was a gruesome chore to retrieve the two crushed bodies from the garbage packer and pronounce them dead at John Gaston Hospital. Echol Cole and Robert Walker soon became the anonymous cause that diverted Martin Luther King to Memphis for his last march.
During King's visit to Memphis, the Lewis funeral home had provided him with a chauffeured limousine. The driver, Solomon Jones, an employee of the Lewis Funeral Home, was one of the last people to speak to King before he was shot, and also attempted to chase the shooter, to no avail.