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...
Henry Loeb, III was born into a wealthy and prominent family in Memphis in 1920. After graduating from Brown University and serving as a Naval lieutenant World War II, he returned to civilian life in Memphis. As Secretary of Loeb’s...
David Skypeck and Richard Cushing were playing with The Midnight Syncopators every Wednesday night at Lafayette’s Corner in August of 1986, but by November the horn players had left the band. They played on even though members continued to leave...
Flooding impacted the society, business environment and ecology of the Mid-South. These mostly man-made disasters interrupted and permeated all aspects of life until the mid-twentieth Century. Floods were so frequent and sometimes so devastating...
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Leo M. Seligman, who committed himself to helping men and women lead responsible and productive lives after prison, grew up in Germany in the early decades of the 20th Century. He was born in 1900 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany and served in the...
