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.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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