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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]
East High School is a public high school serving grades 9 to 12 in Memphis, Tennessee. It was formerly in the Memphis City Schools district but is now a part of Shelby County Schools. [2] East High School is an all-optional school, with whose T-STEM programs offers opportunities to study transportation and logistics, engineering, and aviation ...
Sketches of floats and events by Gutherz appeared in national magazines and publications and were essential the success of Memphis Mardi Gras. A Memphis Daily Appeal account of the first Memphis Mardi Gras estimated 20,000 people attended in a city of slightly more than 40,000. [4] The 1872 Memphis Mardi Gras featured a Ku Klux Klan float.
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.
Ernest C. Withers (August 7, 1922 – October 15, 2007) was an African-American photojournalist.He documented over 60 years of African-American history in the segregated Southern United States, with iconic images of the Montgomery bus boycott, Emmett Till, Memphis sanitation strike, Negro league baseball, and musicians including those related to Memphis blues and Memphis soul.
The NFL playoff schedule is about to be set, with the wild-card dates and times for every matchup to be revealed during Week 18.
The first Canadian program shown, after the 10:30 news and sports, was the game show Scrimmage at 10:50. [1] [2] Maris. Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, beating the 34-year-old record held by Babe Ruth.
A former Memphis police officer was federally indicted Wednesday in connection to a 2021 kidnapping, killing and attempted cover-up, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of ...