On April 4th 2008, forty years will have passed since the night Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot at the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis. How has Memphis changed in the years since? The April issue of Memphis magazine examines how the city has evolved and much more.
"The Strike Zone" by Hampton Sides.
"31 Hours, 28 Minutes" by Michael Finger. A timeline of Dr. Martin Luther King's last hours in Memphis.
"The Lions in Winter" by Frank Murtaugh & Marilyn Sadler. Ten civil rights pioneers take us back to the dark days of April 1968.
"The Crucible" by Preston Lauterbach. The National Civil Rights Museum: from scarred to sacred ground.
"Ask Vance" by Vance Lauderdale. Our trivia expert solves local mysteries of who, what, when, where, why, and why not.
"Books" by Leonard Gill. "Poetically Speaking" - Beth Ann Fennelly: in Oxford, for good.
