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Bob Church is born

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Integrated community began to stabilized (11 black families among white families)

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Ben Crump elected mayor

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Crump elected mayor

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Stable integrated community on Lauderdale (10 black families)

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Crump resigns

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Crump resigned as mayor

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Church helps Harding win Tennessee for the presidency; the first time the Republican Party has won a formerly confederate state

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Church and Crump led a biracial coalition that controlled Memphis politics

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Memphis Housing Authority is established as part of the New Deal

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Church banished from the Democratic Party

Machine initiated slum clearance on the Black middle class neighborhood surrounding Lauderdale

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William H Foot Homes opens across from Church House, meant to stop spread of Black neighborhood

Church home foreclosed on, and other homes auctioned off to pay his back-taxes that had been excused by the city previously

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Fire destroyed landmark in South. Memphis, on Lauderdale Street

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Four months after the burning of the Church home, a bomb went off in a home on East Olive avenue that had been sold to a Black family. White neighbors formed a mob, threatening new Black families with violence.

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MHA opened Edward Cleaborn Homes: public housing exclusively for african americans

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Edward Hull "Boss" Crump died

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City Sanitation workers went on strike and Mayor Loeb refused their demands

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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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I-240 freeway loop

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First african-american mayor Dr Willie Herenton

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county and city schools merged, "sparked...segregationist revolt" and some districts leave and take resources with them

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Peabody Place Mall opens (lasts only 11 years but takes $26mil in public funds)

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The Pyramid reopens as a Bass Pro Shop, hotel, restaurant and observation deck. It used millions of dollars for the renovation under the guise of "job creation"

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Lipscomb Removed from office forcibly

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Jim Strickland elected Mayor of Memphis