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Artikler om Memphis fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 14. april 2012
Andrew Love, 70, Tenor Saxophonist for the Memphis Horns
Andrew Love, a tenor saxophonist who as half of the Memphis Horns helped define what came to be known as the Memphis sound, infusing 83 gold and platinum records with instrumental buoyancy, died on Thursday at his home in Memphis. He was 70. The cause was complications of Alzheimer's disease, said his wife, Willie. Mr. Love was black, tall and laid...
NATIONAL BRIEFING | SOUTH; Tennessee: 44 Years After Assassination, Memphis Names a Street For King
Memphis renamed a street in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Wednesday, 44 years after he was assassinated there. More than 900 streets around the country are named for Dr. King, but Memphis is one of a few large cities in the South without one. ''The significance is that this was the last street that Dr. King ever marched on,'' said...
Merger of Memphis and County School Districts Revives Race and Class Challenges
MEMPHIS -- When thousands of white students abandoned the Memphis schools 38 years ago rather than attend classes with blacks under a desegregation plan fueled by busing, Joseph A. Clayton went with them. He quit his job as a public school principal to head an all-white private school and later won election to the board of the mostly white suburban...
Memphis
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Memphis er den største by i den amerikanske delstat Tennessee med 650.100 indbyggere i 2000. Byen er amtssæde for amtet Shelby County. Hovedstaden i Tennessee er derimod Nashville.
Memphis er kendt for Blues-musik og for at have været hjemby for Elvis Presley, der ligger begravet i parken ved sit hus, Graceland, på adressen Elvis Presley Boulevard No. 3764.
Elvis Presley startede sin pladekarriere i byen i Sun Records på Union Avenue nr. 706, hvor også Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash og Carl Perkins startede.
Byen var endvidere hjemsted for pladeselskabet Stax med speciale i soul, der havde bandet Booker T. and the MGs tilknyttet som studieband. Også Elvis Presley brugte Stax, og i perioden 20. juli - 16. december 1973 indspillede han i alt 29 sange her.
Den 4. april 1968 blev Martin Luther King myrdet (skudt) på altanen udenfor sit motelværelse i Memphis. Motellet er i dag museum for racediskrimination. Fold ud
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