High award
APRIL 11
25 years ago: 1991
Memphis and “Catherine the Great” got five minutes of national exposure — complete with superlatives — on ABC’s Good Morning America Wednesday. Reporting live from the event, entertainment correspondent Chantal Westerman called the exhibition “fantastic” and “quite extraordinary.” She interviewed Mayor Dick Hackett, who extolled the virtues of Memphis (“the cultural capital of the South”), the exhibition and the Memphis companies that helped make it possible.
50 years ago: 1966
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department estimates that Negro voter registration in five Deep South states has risen nearly 50 per cent since the Voting Rights Act went into effect last summer with the biggest impact felt in Mississippi and Alabama. About 228,000 Negroes are reported registered in Alabama as compared with 112,000 last August. In Mississippi, 122,000 Negroes are reported on the voting rolls compared with 35,000 last August.
75 years ago: 1941
The hand of the law armed itself with an ax last night about 9:30, drove down to South Memphis in squad cars and a police patrol and shortly after midnight called it a day after demolishing a café, emptying a liquor store of its stock and padlocking the Stockyard Hotel, its bar and restaurant.
100 years ago: 1916
The county treasury has several times since the advent of commission government resembled Old Mother Hubbard’s famous cupboard. There is left in the general fund about $40,000 to run the city until next October when 1916 taxes are due.
125 years ago: 1891
Today the spring meeting of the New Memphis Jockey Club will be inaugurated. There has been rain enough the past four months to justify the weather clerk in giving us two weeks of bright weather.