There are 5 article(s) tagged Memphis history:

• February 2020

  • Seven flags over Mud Island fading into history

    Replacing a seven-flagpole installation at the tip of Mud Island, including one that flew a Confederate flag, is among Memphis River Park Partnership's priorities for upgrades at riverfront parks.

    By Wayne Risher February 12, 2020

• January 2020

  • Trail of Tears marker on Mud Island emerges from shadow of city’s bicentennial

    The marker unveiled late last year offers a more detailed view of the 1830s relocation of five southwest Native American groups by treaty and by force. Most of those groups used a route that took them through Memphis, to the river's edge and west to exile.

    By Bill Dries January 18, 2020

• July 2019

  • Crème de Memph: Planner mines for the joy, quirks in what Memphis has built

    Weekdays, Josh Whitehead serves as planning director for Memphis and Shelby County. Weekends, he writes and takes photos for his history blog that has drawn a following. 

    By Tom Bailey July 25, 2019

• February 2019

  • Essays on Memphis ‘Black Struggle’ offer counter-narrative

    A collection of essays on the African-American struggle in Memphis by 17 historians is seen by its editors as a “powerful counter-narrative” to a more compressed history of the city.

    By Bill Dries February 14, 2019

• January 2019

  • Memphis Lives: Jimmye Pidgeon

    Jimmye Pidgeon was born in Memphis in 1942 in the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, a child trafficker who used a litany of illegal and jaw-dropping tactics to obtain children. Yet as Pidgeon tells her story today, it is one of resilience, hope, perseverance and optimism.

    By Emily Koelsch January 26, 2019