Tennessee
Tennessee tourism agency launches civil rights trail podcast
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee tourism officers are launching a podcast about distinguished Nineteen Fifties and Sixties civil rights occasions within the state.
Tennessee’s Division of Vacationer Growth is partnering with Journey South on the Tennessee Civil Rights Path Podcast. All streaming platforms will carry the three episodes, which function lesser-known tales.
An episode about Memphis debuts June 20. It’s going to deal with Lorraine Motel co-owner, Lori Bailey, who fell right into a coma after a cerebral hemorrhage the night time Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. She died 5 days later, the identical day King was laid to relaxation in Atlanta.
The June 27 episode dives into Nashville’s historical past. It’s going to clarify how “The Music Metropolis” nickname stems from nineteenth century African American Jubilee Singers from Fisk College.
An episode releasing July 4 highlights Clinton, the place African-American college students in 1956 marked the primary integration of a public highschool within the South. Bobby Cain turned the primary to graduate.