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By Judith Barber, February 5, 2013
Church Park Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Beale Street east of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | At this location Church Park and Auditorium was established in 1899 by Robert R. Church Sr., a Memphis business man and former slave, to provide recreational facilities for members of his race who had no other place to meet. Many famous Americans, . . . — — Map (db m82845) HM |
| On Beale Street east of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | In 1952, Roberta Church became the first black woman in Memphis to be elected to public office and to the Tennessee Republican State Executive Committee. She served as an official in the administrations of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon. In 1987, . . . — — Map (db m63290) HM |
| On Summer Ave (U.S. 70) at Bartlett Road, on the left when traveling east on Summer Ave. |
| | Front Near this spot, on May 22, 1917, a mob tied Ell Persons to a log, doused him with gasoline, and burned him alive. Several thousand people watched in what newspapers described as a holiday atmosphere.
Authorities had arrested Persons, a . . . — — Map (db m105947) HM |
| | The Solvent Savings Bank and Trust Company founded by Robert Church, Sr., first Negro bank established in Memphis, opened at this site, 392 Beale Street, in 1906. It survived the money panic of 1907 and became the fourth largest black bank in the . . . — — Map (db m48758) HM |
| On Beale Street east of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Born in Memphis in 1863, Mary Church Terrell was noted as a champion of human rights. The daughter of millionaire Robert Church, Sr., she was graduated from Oberlin College in 1884 and later made her home in Washington, D.C. In 1904, she was a . . . — — Map (db m63342) HM |
May. 18, 2024