Memphis@200: Race an intrinsic aspect of Memphis’ complex story
For two centuries, threads of black and white have woven a sometimes-ugly tapestry that is the Bluff City’s history
Demonstrators commemorated the 1968 sanitation workers' strike during a march from Clayborn Temple to City Hall on Feb. 12, 2018. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian file)
Race is a complicated, foreboding and necessary theme to consider in Memphis's 200-year history. It's also more than the city's past. Race is part of the city's eternal present.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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