by Susan | May 11, 2026 | Monuments, Uncategorized
In 1968, Clayborn Temple, an African Methodist Episcopal congregation, became headquarters for the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, which began when two African American sanitation workers were killed in an accident on a city truck. Starting in February, nearly...
by Susan | Apr 28, 2025 | Monuments, Uncategorized
The Tennessee Woman Suffrage Memorial honors the women who campaigned for the state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to give women the right to vote. Tennessee was the final state to ratify the amendment and was the focus of...
by Susan | Dec 14, 2020 | Monuments
The Ladies Battlefield Association commissioned Italian artist Guiseppe Moretti for this monument, dedicated on Armistice Day 1927, to all those who fought during the 1864 Battle of Nashville. The marble obelisk and angel were destroyed in the tornadoes of 1974; the...
by Susan | Sep 28, 2020 | Monuments
In 1998 a Whitwell Middle School History class discussing World War II learned that six million Jews were slaughtered in the Nazi camps. A student asked how big six million is; another student read that people from Norway wore paperclips as a symbol of resistance...
by Susan | May 11, 2020 | Monuments
On August 27, 1956, twelve African American young people from Clinton, Tennessee, became the first students to desegregate a public high school in the American South. This was a year before the more famous integration of Little Rock High School in Arkansas. Black...
