"When George Coleman, Harold Mabern and Frank Strozier bring home their internationally known jazz music this weekend, they also will bring memories of why they had to leave Memphis to seek fame and fortune. -- The Manassas High School...
Three signs read, "Civic Leaders back Nomination of Sis. Muhammad to Council," "No More Business As Usual," and "Why Consider Anybody else But Sister Mary Muhammad."
New Year's Party in 1963. According to notes on the back of the photo, "around the table are: Ida, Max, Colin, Sonny, Marion (Sonny's new wife), Myself, Lillian (Ida's daughter). I think it's a good picture but I don't know why everyone took...
“He is a quiet man. -- We are sitting in a shadowed room, cut off from the street noises, the afternoon’s light barely creeping through a doorway window. -- An upright piano, framed with pictures and musical scores, waits patiently across the...
"Marvin Stamm, an aspiring young musician at Central High School not too many years ago, returned to Memphis last night and showed an audience of about 1,800 people at the Overton Park Shell why he is one of the country's top jazz trumpeters....
"...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...
Operettas and musicals provided a welcome escape from the hard realities of everyday life in the 1930s and ‘40s. They had unforgettable melodies such as Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life and Indian Love Call, as well as rousing choruses, comic relief,...
