Ida B. Wells to be honored with Downtown street
A statue of Ida B. Wells stands at the intersection of Fourth and Beale streets in Memphis on July 16, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
The name change approved Tuesday changes the street’s name on city maps and as a mailing address.
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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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