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Ethyl Horton Venson, co-founder and first Queen of the Cotton Makers' Jubilee, broke many barriers that helped promote civil rights in Memphis. Ethyl…
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The Great Depression pushed cotton prices to drastically low levels. The Memphis economy was suffering.In early 1931, Arthur Halle and a group of…
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In March of 1934, Dr. R.Q. Venson, a Beale Street dentist, took his nephew to a Cotton Carnival parade. While at the parade, his nephew pointed-out that,…
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On July 14, 1938, photographer Marion Post Wolcott was offered a job with the Farm Securities Administration.She was one of many photographers hired to…