Laura Faith Kebede

The federal building in Downtown Memphis was named after two men on opposing sides of history. Now only one remains.

Time is running out to gather evidence and documentation from the generation who bore witness to the Civil Rights Era and some of the crimes that were never prosecuted.

The Sanitation Workers' Strike may be known for the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. But a week earlier, after a protest turned unruly, a 17-year-old was gunned down by a Memphis police officer. Larry Payne's family doesn't want to see him become a footnote.

In L. Alex Wilson was one of the first editors of the Memphis Tri-State Defender newspaper, writing about civil rights. His grandson, a classical flute player, now channels his memory through music.