• The Memphis Free Speech was an African American newspaper founded in 1881 in Memphis, Tennessee, by the Reverend Taylor Nightingale, based at the Beale...
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    Ida B. Wells (category American free speech activists)
    her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee, Wells found better pay as a teacher. Soon, Wells co-owned and wrote for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper...
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    launched an anti-lynching campaign in her newspaper, Memphis Free Speech and Headlight. The Free Speech and Headlight received national attention in 1892...
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    full justice for all African Americans. Ida B. Wells's newspaper Memphis Free Speech and Headlight had its printing press destroyed and building burned...
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    millions of slaves free in 1863, King said: "one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free". Toward the end of the speech, King departed from...
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    and siblings. He would then move to Memphis, Tennessee, and was part-owner of the newspaper Memphis Free Speech with activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett. John...
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    [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 198?-1998". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-02-06. Kenneth W. Goings (2019-10-07). "Memphis Free Speech". Tennessee...
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    "Detroit's first Black newspaper receives overdue historical marker". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved April 4, 2023. Jordan, Jamon (February 21, 2022). "The Black...
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  • p. 422. ISBN 978-0-87485-064-2. "Menlo Park: 'Rennaissance Man' to give free jazz performance". The Mercury News. 2018-01-05. ISSN 0747-2099. Retrieved...
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  • Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Murfreesboro, Nashville Journalism: Category:Journalists from Tennessee University of Memphis Department of Journalism...
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    financial aid. In 1891, he collaborated with Ida B. Wells and her Memphis Free Speech, alongside the Detroit Plaindealer, in hiring a correspondent to...
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    Jerome B. Peterson (category African Free School alumni)
    Street, and attended the Mulberry Street School in Manhattan, an African Free School. Peterson was a founding owner and editor at The New York Age, a noted...
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    movement in Memphis. In 1889, NAACP co-founder Ida B. Wells was a co-owner and editor of an anti-segregationist paper called Free Speech based on Beale...
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    United States. The Tribune was founded in 1864 by Louis Charles Roudanez, a free man of color. He had also published L'Union, which had folded earlier that...
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  • Killing of Tyre Nichols (category African-American history in Memphis, Tennessee)
    five black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, and died three days later. The officers, all members of the Memphis Police Department (MPD) SCORPION...
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    The University of Memphis (Memphis) is a public research university in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than...
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    union. The Memphis sanitation strike prompted Martin Luther King Jr.'s presence, where he famously gave the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech a day before...
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    Jerry Lawler (redirect from King Of Memphis)
    in Memphis, Tennessee, where he graduated from Treadwell High School. When he was 19, his father, Jerome Lawler, died. While working in Memphis, Tennessee...
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    David O. Sacks (category American free speech activists)
    who started a candy factory in the 1920s. Sacks attended Memphis University School in Memphis, Tennessee. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in economics from...
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    Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights movement...
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    Reggie White (category Memphis Showboats players)
    earning unanimous All-American honors. After playing two seasons for the Memphis Showboats of the United States Football League (USFL), he was selected...
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