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John Elkington and the Remaking of Beale Street

John Elkington and the Remaking of Beale Street Southern Voices b y C at h ry n S t out "Beale Street was a segregated street in the 1950s. Totally. It was the only place where blacks could shop. It was the only place they could socialize. The only place they could drink. The only place they could hear music. Well, that all started breaking down in the fifties and sixties." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (left) and A. W. Willis Jr. (backseat) ride down Beale Street on July 31, 1959. Photograph by Ernest Withers, courtesy of the Miriam DeCosta Willis Collection / Memphis Public Library and Information Center. John Elkington moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to start law school in 1970, a year after urban clearance claimed its first building on Beale Street. The twenty-twoyear-old student walked down Beale Street trying to imagine what it was like in its heyday, before the crumbling buildings and bulldozers. In the first half of the twentieth century, Beale Street was a popular destination for African American southerners who came there to support the musicians and shop owners located on the segregated strip. It became known as the "Home of the Blues" because of its lively nightclubs and frequent appearances http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

John Elkington and the Remaking of Beale Street

Stout, Cathryn
Southern Cultures , Volume 21 (3) – Oct 4, 2015
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Southern Voices b y C at h ry n S t out "Beale Street was a segregated street in the 1950s. Totally. It was the only place where blacks could shop. It was the only place they could socialize. The only place they could drink. The only place they could hear music. Well, that all started breaking down in the fifties and sixties." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (left) and A. W. Willis Jr. (backseat) ride down Beale Street on July 31, 1959. Photograph by Ernest Withers, courtesy of the Miriam DeCosta Willis Collection / Memphis Public Library and Information Center. John Elkington moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to start law school in 1970, a year after urban clearance claimed its first building on Beale Street. The twenty-twoyear-old student walked down Beale Street trying to imagine what it was like in its heyday, before the crumbling buildings and bulldozers. In the first half of the twentieth century, Beale Street was a popular destination for African American southerners who came there to support the musicians and shop owners located on the segregated strip. It became known as the "Home of the Blues" because of its lively nightclubs and frequent appearances

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Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Oct 4, 2015

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