From WYPL Radio: "We are pleased to honor WYPL volunteer reader Rorie Trammel (shown bottom row, right) -- Rorie was a second year students at Memphis State University in the fall of 1980 and in the pledge class for Delta Sigma Theta...
Campaign material supporting Roosevelt's Democrats. Outlines improvements the Democrats have brought to the black community, via the Works Progress Administration, the National Youth Administration, housing changes, the Civilian Conservation...
biography; John Gaston Hospital; medicine; nursing; Warner, Lena Angevine; women;
"Founder Of Nurses' School In Memphis - One of Tennessee's most colorful personalities and who had contributed much to the progress of medicine and research, died last night in Knoxville, Tenn. She was Mrs. Lena A. Warner, founder of the...
"...There are many reasons why the R.N. is disappearing from the bedside of patients. Basically, it is because not enough young women are entering the profession, not enough are being graduated. -- In recent years, recruitment has increased...
E. William Hale was born in 1875 in Oxford Mississippi, and moved with his family to Whitehaven in 1894. In addition to running a farm, the Hale family owned a general store at the corner of Highway 51 and Whitehaven-Capleville Road in rural Shelby...
George Mahan, Jr., distinguished and revered architect, was born in Memphis and spent his entire life in the city. He began his career at the age of fifteen, when he joined the architectural firm of Shaw and Pfeil as a student draftsman. ...
A small group of people organized as Citizens to Preserve Overton Park with the goal of preventing Interstate 40 from intersecting Overton Park. CPOP, as the organization became known, successfully stopped the construction of an east-west segment...
arts; Beethoven Club; entertainment; music; performing arts; theater;
Miss Martha Trudeau, a piano teacher, couldn't have dreamed of the possibilities when she invited three women to tea on October 27, 1888. They discussed the lack of classical music opportunities in Memphis and they decided to start a club, the...
discrimination; gender equality; National Organization for Women; nonprofit organizations; politics; women;
The National Organization for Women (NOW), a dedicated women's rights advocacy coalition, was founded in 1966, amid much controversy over the proposed direction of the women's rights movement. In its nascent stages, the national chapter of NOW...
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...
