When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968, he was in Memphis to

r	make an appeal for peace to members of the all-white Memphis City Council.

The trial of high school biology teacher John T. Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 drew nationwide attention because

it put the issue of evolution on trial.

The African-American newspaper publisher in Memphis, Tennessee, who was an outspoken critic against the practice of lynching was

Ida B. Wells