African Americans; airports; budget; commission government; Crump, E. H.; economy; education; floods; government; housing; law; mayors; New Deal; paving; politics; public service; race relations; roads; schools; streets; traffic; utilities;
Samuel Watkins Overton was born in Memphis in 1894 to a distinguished local family. He was the great-grandson of John Overton, a founder of Memphis, the grandson of Napoleon Hill, a wealthy businessman, and the son of S. Watkins Overton, who built...
airlines; Carley, John Ogden; concentration camps; Crump, E. H.; dams; disease; epidemics; Federal Bureau of Investigation; floods; health; journalists; mayors; parks; police; politics; public service; rivers; yellow fever;
John Ogden Carley was born in East Ontario, Canada, in 1896. He worked for the Hearst papers as a police reporter in Los Angeles and Chicago before coming to Memphis in 1923 as a police reporter for the Commercial Appeal. He served as city editor...
appropriations; Crump, E. H.; government; immigration; law; legislation; military; pardons; parole; passports; politics; post office; public service; rural routes;
Kenneth McKellar was born in 1869 near Richmond, Alabama. In 1892, after receiving a Bachelor’s, Master’s and law degree from the University of Alabama, he moved to Memphis. He began his extensive political career when he was selected as a...
Booker T. Washington High School; schools; music; Elks; Lee, George W.; Hunt, Blair T.; Kelly, J. E.; Gibson, H. P.; McClinton, Lucy; Crump, E. H.;
"Elks National Convention and Worlds Fair New York City 1939 -- The Booker T. Washington High School Drum and Bugle Corps, Composed of Junior Elks of Memphis, Tennessee -- Left: J.E. Kelly Grand Secy, B.T. Hung Regional Director of Education,...
Edward Hull Crump was born near Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1874. He was raised by his mother, Mollie Nelms Crump, after his father, a cotton planter and former Confederate officer, died during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. When he was 19...
business; Chandler, Walter; Crump, E. H.; economy; education; government; hospitals; housing; law; legislature; machine politics; mayors; municipal government; politics; public safety; public service; race; transportation;
Walter Chandler, who served as Mayor of Memphis during World War II, and then again briefly in 1955, was born in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1887. He moved to Memphis as a teenager and attended public schools. After earning a law degree from the...
Paul Coppock was born in Greenfield, Indiana, and during his youth lived in Virginia, New York, Nebraska, and Illinois. He attended Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, and planned to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a history...
