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Memphis Public Libraries (MPL) is a public library system serving Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis Public Libraries has a yearly circulation of 250,000 items and serves 400,000 patrons a year. [1] The library has 18 branches located throughout the city of Memphis and surrounding areas, offering up to 3,400 programs to the public each year.
Benjamin Lawson Hooks (January 31, 1925 – April 15, 2010) was an American civil rights leader and government official. A Baptist minister and practicing attorney, he served as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1977 to 1992. Throughout his career, Hooks was a vocal campaigner for ...
People's Grocery lynchings. The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody. The lynchings occurred in the aftermath of a fight between whites and blacks and ...
A woman peruses the books at Bartlett Public Library on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. The library, at 5884 Stage Road in Bartlett, will exit the Memphis Public Libraries system this summer. However ...
Memphis, Tennessee, Public Library, Benjamin Hooks Central Library Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library Magazine spin-off [ edit ] In 1988, the magazine formed a spin-off company to produce a radio syndication called Pulsebeat – Voice of the Heartland.
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The Memphis and Shelby County Room in the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library provides facilities for researchers to view items from the library's archives and its manuscript collections. These include historical records of people and families, maps, photographs, newspaper vertical files, books, city directories, and music and video recordings.