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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 [ 9 ] Ida B. Wells — civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
Memphis, Tennessee – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [81] Pop 2010 [82] Pop 2020 [83] % 2000 % 2010 ...
"Welcome to Memphis" sign on U.S. Route 51 (2008). Memphis, Tennessee has a long history of distinctive contributions to the culture of the American South and beyond. Although it is an important part of the culture of Tennessee, the history, arts, and cuisine of Memphis are more closely associated with the culture of the Deep South (particularly the Mississippi Delta) than the rest of the state.
European exploration came years later, with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto believed to have visited what is now the Memphis area as early as the 1540s. [10]By the 1680s, French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle built Fort Prudhomme in the vicinity, the first European settlement in what would become Memphis, predating Anglo-American settlement in East Tennessee by ...
The Memphis–Clarksdale–Forrest City Combined Statistical Area, TN–MS–AR (CSA) is the commercial and cultural hub of the Mid-South or Ark-Miss-Tenn. The census-defined combined statistical area covers eleven counties in three states, Tennessee , Mississippi , and Arkansas .
4 East Memphis. 5 North Memphis. 6 Northeast. 7 South Memphis. 8 Southeast. 9 East Parkway District. 10 See also. Toggle the table of contents. List of neighborhoods ...
Autumn (dry becoming cold) – Earth – Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn; Winter (cold becoming wet) – Water – Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces; The seasonal qualities account for the differences in expression between signs of the same element. All the fire signs are by their nature hot and dry.
The senior members established a funeral home, and built a broad network in the black community. Their political prominence dates to the era of E.H. Crump in the early 20th century in Memphis and the state. The best-known member of this family is Harold Ford, Sr., who represented most of Memphis in the U.S. House from 1975 to 1997.