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Ask the Memphian: How did the Black community help save Memphis during the Yellow Fever Epidemic?
 
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The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 was one of the worst disasters in American history, and it devastated Memphis. But during one of the saddest, darkest periods of the city’s history, Black Memphians helped save it.

 
 

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