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The Daily News is a newspaper covering business, government and legal news in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, the largest county by population in the state of Tennessee, including the largest city in the county, Memphis, Tennessee.
Leonard Ray Blanton (April 10, 1930 – November 22, 1996) [1] [2] was an American businessman and politician who served as the 44th governor of Tennessee from 1975 to 1979. He also served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives , from 1967 to 1973.
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
Lewie Ford (1889-1931) started the family funeral business and became allied with E.H. Crump, an influential white politician in Memphis and the state in the early 20th century. Newton Jackson Ford (1914–1986) was an undertaker and businessman, and his wife Vera (Davis) Ford (1915–1994), were prominent members of the African-American community.
The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area.It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, the E. W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983.
A singular force behind much of the riverfront that Memphis knows and enjoys today has died. John Stokes, an avid outdoorsman, husband and father, the first chairman of the then-named Riverfront ...
In 1922, Lewis purchased the Memphis Red Sox, a baseball team in the Negro leagues. He also financed the construction of Martin Stadium (sometimes called "Lewis Park") in Memphis. At the time, the city's hotels were racially segregated, and opposing team members were lodged at the funeral home. [1] [2]
Memphis 1866 1885 [21] Memphis Daily Appeal: Memphis 1847 1886 [22] Memphis Daily Commercial: Memphis 1889 1891 [23] Memphis Daily Scimitar: Memphis 1881 [3] Became News Scimitar in 1907, Memphis Press-Scimitar in 1926 [8] Memphis Free Speech: Memphis 1888 [16] Memphis Morning News: Memphis 1902 1904 [24] Memphis Post: Memphis 1866 1869 Memphis ...