A Delta Afternoon: The Ghosts of Earle

On September 10, 1970, the Rev. Ezra Greer and his wife, Jackie, who was a candidate for mayor of Earle, Arkansas, led a march from an Earle church toward Earle city hall when local white residents…

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Remembering West Memphis’s South Eighth Street

While Memphis’s Beale Street is far better known, and has been restored as a tourist attraction, South Eighth Street across the river in West Memphis, Arkansas was if anything a wilder street…

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