Opinion: With redistricting, ‘Memphis is defined by the people who stay and fight for it’
Tennessee National Guard troopers in jeeps and trucks escort a protest march by striking Memphis sanitation workers through downtown Memphison March 30, 1968. (AP Photo file)
Preston Battle
Preston Battle is a fifth-generation Memphian and a new resident of Tennessee’s Fifth Congressional District. This article expresses his own personal views and not of any organization with which he is affiliated.
“Memphis has never been defined by the people who pass through it or pass judgment on it.”
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