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Douglass, Memphis, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.1757°N 89.9595°W. Douglass is a community on the north side of Memphis, Tennessee. Douglass was named after Frederick Douglass, who was admired by William Rush-Plummer, the one-time owner of the land (approximately 40 acres (0.16 km 2)) where the Douglass neighborhood currently stands.
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Douglass High School is a public high school (grades 9-12) in Memphis, United States, Tennessee, operated in the Shelby County Schools. Located in the African American Douglass neighborhood in North Memphis, it is named for Frederick Douglass, a 19th-century abolitionist. [4] The original Douglass High School was built in 1938. [citation needed]
Outside the Dermon Building at 46 B.B. King Bld., in Downtown Memphis on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Developers Nick Patel and Sam Patel own the building. The developer’s entity, Dermon Building OZ ...
Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium, originally named Memphis Memorial Stadium, and later Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, is a football stadium located at the former Mid-South Fairgrounds in the Midtown area of Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
Orange Mound, Memphis. Coordinates: 35.1078°N 89.9720°W. O-Mound mural. Orange Mound, a neighborhood in southeastern Memphis, Tennessee, was the first US neighborhood to be built by and for African Americans. [1][failed verification][dubious – discuss] Built on the grounds of the former Deaderick plantation, the Orange Mound subdivision was ...
1982. The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights movement in the United States from the 17th century to the present. The museum is built around the former Lorraine Motel, which was the site of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther ...
Temple Israel is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 1376 East Massey Road, in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States. It is the only Reform synagogue in Memphis, the oldest and largest Jewish congregation in Tennessee, and one of the largest Reform congregations in the U.S. It was founded in 1853 by mostly German Jews as ...