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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 ...
From about 10,000 BCE, Paleo-Indians and later Archaic-Indians lived as communities of hunter-gatherers in the area that covers the modern-day southern United States. [4] [5] Approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi River Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a mound-building Native American people who had developed in the late Woodland Indian period.
1858 – Memphis Daily Avalanche newspaper begins publication. [4] 1860 – Population: 22,623. [9] [2] 1861 – Memphis and Ohio Railroad completed. [10] 1862 Tennessee capital relocated to Memphis from Nashville. [3] June 6: First Battle of Memphis takes place on Mississippi River near town; Union forces take Memphis. [3] 1864
Memphis most commonly refers to: Memphis, Egypt, a former capital of ancient Egypt; Memphis, Tennessee, a major American city; Memphis may also refer to: Places
Memphis did try to annex this area in the mid-2000s but held it off due to an inability to move services into the area. Per Tennessee law, each county is required to set up urban growth boundaries for it cities. Because of this, Memphis (along with each suburb) has what is known as an annexation reserve that defines the eventual city limits.
Memphis has experienced a violent first three months with 60 people killed in 2016 at the end of March -- compared to 35 homicides this time last year. Those numbers put the homicide rate around 9 ...
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The city of Memphis is split between two congressional districts. The western three-fourths of the city, including downtown, forms the core of the 9th District, which has been represented by Democrat Steve Cohen since 2007. Cohen was the first white Democrat to represent a significant portion of Memphis in more than 40 years.