https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf Create a timeline of events from Lauterbach article on change in Memphis en-us 2020-09-16 15:27:18 UTC 2025-09-30 13:27:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752347148 Bob Church is born

]]> 2020-09-16 16:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752347148 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752350143 Stable integrated community on Lauderdale (10 black families)


]]> 2020-09-16 16:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752350143 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752352503 Fire destroyed landmark in South. Memphis, on Lauderdale Street]]> 2020-09-16 16:42:02 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752352503 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752352571 Ben Crump elected mayor

]]> 2020-09-16 16:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752352571 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752355849 Church banished from the Democratic Party

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


]]> 2020-09-16 16:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752355849 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752357281 Church helps Harding win Tennessee for the presidency; the first time the Republican Party has won a formerly confederate state

]]> 2020-09-16 16:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752357281 griginos1 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752359396 Integrated community began to stabilized (11 black families among white families) ]]> 2020-09-16 16:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752359396 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752370318 Memphis Housing Authority is established as part of the New Deal]]> 2020-09-16 16:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752370318 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752371597 Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]]> 2020-09-16 16:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752371597 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752372182 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]]> 2020-09-16 16:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752372182 griginos1 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752373825 Crump resigns]]> 2020-09-16 16:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752373825 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752373894 Edward Hull "Boss" Crump died ]]> 2020-09-16 16:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752373894 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752373901 MHA opened Edward Cleaborn Homes: public housing exclusively for african americans



]]> 2020-09-16 16:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752373901 griginos1 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752380391 Church and Crump led a biracial coalition that controlled Memphis politics]]> 2020-09-16 16:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752380391 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752384976 Crump elected mayor]]> 2020-09-16 16:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752384976 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752386100 City Sanitation workers went on strike and Mayor Loeb refused their demands

]]> 2020-09-16 16:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752386100 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752386367 Crump resigned as mayor]]> 2020-09-16 16:49:27 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752386367 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752389297 I-240 freeway loop

]]> 2020-09-16 16:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752389297 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752390522 county and city schools merged, "sparked...segregationist revolt" and some districts leave and take resources with them]]> 2020-09-16 16:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752390522 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752395059 First african-american mayor Dr Willie Herenton

]]> 2020-09-16 16:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752395059 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752398365 Lipscomb Removed from office forcibly

]]> 2020-09-16 16:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752398365 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752399793 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"

]]> 2020-09-16 16:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752399793 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752403832 Peabody Place Mall opens (lasts only 11 years but takes $26mil in public funds)

]]> 2020-09-16 16:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752403832 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752405833 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.  ]]> 2020-09-16 16:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752405833 lik21061_1 https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752407616 Jim Strickland elected Mayor of Memphis]]> 2020-09-16 16:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/maryrocco2/sgy1mdcl0eimoklf/wish/752407616