Future Memphis, Inc., was founded and incorporated in February 1961, when a group of business leaders meeting over lunch decided that the city needed an organization to determine what efforts could be made in business, education, the arts, or in...
A sizeable group of African American men, including some Elks supporters, are pictured lined up outside of the Bluff City Lodge No. 96, IBPOEW. Included in the group are Roosevelt H. Chapman, Jr., George W. Lee, Maurice Hulburt, Percy Williams and...
Campaign material supporting Roosevelt's Democrats, both national and local. Outlines improvements the Democrats have brought to the black community, with an emphasis on education. (Note: Item is composed of two separate documents, placed back to...
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...
"Saxophonist-flutist Frank Strozier, whose credits include playing with Miles Davis, Woody Shaw and Shelley Manne, returns to Memphis tonight for a rare appearance in his hometown. He will play Schreier Auditorium of the University of...
"Jazz is alive in Memphis, and MMUSIC is working to make it better. -- Some of the city's premier musicians city 'strutted their stuff' at the Overton Park Shell last night in behalf of Memphis Musicians United Supporting Improvisational...
Ethel Taylor Maxwell was born in Memphis in 1915 and enjoyed a long and prominent career as a musical singing star and later as a teacher of music. She credited her parents with encouraging her early interest in music and supporting her artistic...
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Harry H. Litty was born in 1862 in Toledo, Ohio. After attending North Kentucky College, he began his business career with the Toledo, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railroad. His work with the railroad brought him to Memphis, where he was an engineer...
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,...
Jack Ramsay was born in 1901 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, but moved to the Memphis area as a small child. He attended Messick School, Memphis University School, West Tennessee State Normal School (now the University of Memphis), and the University...
