Memphis Redbirds

Martin Luther King is known the best for fighting for civil rights. He gave his last speech in Memphis to help the sanitation workers to help him fight for rights and freedom. He empathizes his feeling to inspire his people to get what they should deserve like other race. His main purpose was to get the sanitation workers/his people to fight for what they deserve and their rights to be equal. In Martin Luther King Jr’s, “I have been on the mountaintop, he gave a speech to help inspire the sanitation

The Letter from Birmingham Jail is a letter that explains the events that occurred when clergymen criticized Martin Luther King Jr.’s entrancing the Birmingham. Mr. King writes this letter to the clergymen who says racial discrimination was in control by the law administrators and should not be changed by Mr. King or any other outsider that are not white race. Mr. King’s statement letter addresses that he wants to form and restore an organize community where all human race can fight and have equal

Elvis Aaron Presley, otherwise known as “The King” was born on January 8th, 1935. He came from simple beginnings; being born into a lower-class family in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1948, at the age of 13 Elvis Presley and his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. Soon he launched his incredibly successful music career with Sun Records at the age of 19 in 1954. His music was influenced by both African American and White artists causing his unique blend of country, pop, rhythm and blues, and gospel music

What is an epic hero? An epic hero is someone who shows the hero like traits and they can be both non-fictional or fictional characters. Some traits that an epic hero can portray maybe noble birth, capable of great deeds of great strength and courage, a great warrior, travels across a vast setting, national heroism, humility and if they faced supernatural foes and/or receive supernatural help. There are many more traits that an epic hero can have but these were just the many examples of traits an

Got Soul? In 1975, Jim Steward made history that changed Memphis for a lifetime. He discovered a small movie theater that later expanded to the biggest recording studio in the city. Quickly Stewart realized that he had nothing. He had no funds, no equipment, or artist. But, to the rescue comes his sister, Estelle Axton. For the simple fact that she was a bank clerk he confided in her for help. She mortgaged her house for a while to buy better equipment for the new recording studio. Then in an instance

In Birmingham, Alabama before April of 1963 there was a lot of prejudice dividing the population. The whites had instilled a mindset they were better and of higher authority than the African Americans. Birmingham was one of the most segregated cities in the South, being the worst kind of city for an African American to live in. Martin Luther King Junior was asked to lead a march in Birmingham regarding the injustice. After the peaceful protest King and some of his fellow leaders of the march were

Chavez’s Push For Nonviolence “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. In Dr. Kings life he fought endlessly for what he believes in. He challenged his followers to do the same when they are faced with an injustice too. During Cesar Chavez’s article he follows the same mindset and believes as MLK and shares the differences between protesting styles. In an excerpt from “He Showed Us The Way”, Cesar Chavez fights for the push of nonviolence in the listeners

to Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee in the same way a religious person would journey to a holy site. Through usage of imagery, tone, and metaphorical devices throughout allow this song to function as a comically surreal poem.

House. Boarding his flight due south, Chef Cole Ellis of Delta Meat Market recaps “It is by all means an honor and we definitely showed them a good time.”
 Hand-selected and assembled by Chef Phillip Ashley Rix of Phillip Ashley Chocolates in Memphis, the team collaborated to plan and prepare a menu best sharing a glimpse of home, homage, and culinary history. The cast of chefs consisted

Mississippi Delta became very industrialized in the early 1980s. The Delta had risen from a swampy wilderness through its heyday as the New South’s Old South to its post-New Deal status as a planter’s paradise, where those who reaped the benefits of a rapidly modernizing plantation economy also managed to maintain their dominance in social and political sphere. Agriculture remains the backbone of the region 's economy, but farms that once required hundreds of people have become more technical.