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S.A. Wilbun: [10] First African American male to serve as the Assistant City Attorney in Memphis, Tennessee (1964) [Shelby County, Tennessee] John George Morris: [33] First Greek American lawyer in Memphis, Tennessee [Shelby County, Tennessee] Joe Brown: [34] First African American male prosecutor in Memphis, Tennessee [Shelby County, Tennessee]
The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody. The lynchings occurred in the aftermath of a fight between whites and blacks and two subsequent shooting ...
Thomas Waterson — police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in a Memphis raid in 1933 Luke J. Weathers (1920–2011) — former U.S. Army Air Force officer and member of Tuskegee Airmen [ 6 ] Ida B. Wells — civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
Jurors began their deliberations Thursday, a day after prosecutors and defense attorneys presented closing arguments in the trial of Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius […]
A jury reached verdicts Thursday in the federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged in the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols, according to NBC News affiliate WMC.
Diocesan attorney Robert L. Hutton has been named to serve as chairman-elect of the National Advisory Council to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops during its recent semi-annual ...
The attorneys for Thomas filed a motion for a speedy trial, arguing there was no forensic link between their client and the crime scene. Thomas was granted the motion and was scheduled to go on trial on August 11, 2008. Baumgartner ruled that Thomas' phone calls from the jailhouse to his acquaintances were admissible as evidence. [82] [83]
The amendment was announced during a press conference at Memphis City Hall that saw Memphis Mayor Paul Young flanked by Sexton, Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, a number of state legislators ...