The Memphis 200 Chapter 3: Alice Mitchell, Overton Square, Piomingo and the Memphis Chicks
Influenced by music on both sides of 1950s Memphis' racial divide, Elvis Presley (at a Los Angeles press conference in 1960) became the embodiment of rock and roll. (HPM/AP)
The third of our four-part survey of the 200 people, places and events that have made Memphis what is was, what it is and what it could be.
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The Memphis 200 Memphis Bicentennial Elvis Presley Ida B. Wells Clarence SaundersBill Dries
Bill Dries covers city government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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