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1819 establishments in Tennessee
Counties in the Memphis metropolitan area
Majority-minority counties in Tennessee
Tennessee counties on the Mississippi River
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A C Wharton

A C Wharton Jr. (born August 17, 1944) is an American educator, politician, and attorney who served as the 63rd mayor of Memphis, Tennessee and previously mayor of Shelby County.

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Adams Avenue Historic District

The Adams Avenue Historic District in Memphis, Tennessee is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States.

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Architectural sculpture

Architectural sculpture is the use of sculptural techniques by an architect and/or sculptor in the design of a building, bridge, mausoleum or other such project.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.

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Arlington Community Schools is the municipal school district in Arlington, Tennessee in Greater Memphis.

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Arlington, Tennessee

Arlington is a town in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Baker v. Carr

Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that redistricting qualifies as a justiciable question under the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, thus enabling federal courts to hear Fourteenth Amendment-based redistricting cases.

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Baptist Health Sciences University

Baptist Health Sciences University, formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences, is a private college in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Barretville, Tennessee

Barretville is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, close to the border of Tipton County, and near the community of Rosemark.

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Bartlett City Schools

Bartlett City Schools is a municipal school district serving Bartlett, Tennessee, United States.

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Bartlett, Tennessee

Bartlett is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.

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Beale Street

Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately.

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Benjestown, Tennessee

Benjestown is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and is part of the Memphis metropolitan area.

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Bobbie Gentry

Bobbie Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) is a retired American singer-songwriter.

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Brunswick, Tennessee

Brunswick is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.

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C.C. Crews

Charles Constantine Crews (September 3, 1829 – November 14, 1887) was an attorney, physician, railroad executive and Confederate Colonel in the American Civil War.

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Cahokia

The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (11 MS 2) is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis, Missouri.

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Canon law

Canon law (from κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Chickasaw

The Chickasaw are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States.

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Christian Brothers University

Christian Brothers University is a private Catholic university in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Chucalissa

The C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa is located on and exhibits excavated materials of the Mississippian culture archaeological site known as Chucalissa (40 SY 1) which means "abandoned house" in Chickasaw.

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Civil law (common law)

Civil law is a major "branch of the law", for example in common law legal systems such as those in England and Wales and in the United States, where it stands in contrast to criminal law.

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Collierville Schools

Collierville Schools is a municipal school district that serves approximately 9,000 students in Collierville, Tennessee.

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Collierville, Tennessee

Collierville ("call your ville" or "call yer ville") is a town in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and a suburb located in the Memphis metropolitan area.

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Cordova, Tennessee

Cordova is a community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Criminal law

Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.

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Crittenden County, Arkansas

Crittenden County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Shelby County, Tennessee and Crittenden County, Arkansas are black Belt (U.S. region) and counties in the Memphis metropolitan area.

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Davies Manor

Davies Manor is one of the oldest extant homes in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and possibly the oldest anywhere in the region of West Tennessee.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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DeSoto County, Mississippi

DeSoto County is a county located on the northwestern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. Shelby County, Tennessee and DeSoto County, Mississippi are counties in the Memphis metropolitan area.

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Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era

Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era in the United States, especially in the Southern United States, was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

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E. H. Crump

Edward Hull "Boss" Crump Jr. (October 2, 1874 – October 16, 1954) was an American politician from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Eads, Tennessee

Eads is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, named after Civil War engineer James Buchanan Eads.

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Egypt, Tennessee

Egypt is an American populated place in Shelby County, Tennessee at.

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Ellendale, Tennessee

Ellendale is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, in the Memphis metropolitan area.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is a private university focused on aviation and aerospace programs.

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Equal Protection Clause

The Equal Protection Clause is part of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Fayette County, Tennessee

Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Shelby County, Tennessee and Fayette County, Tennessee are counties in the Memphis metropolitan area, Tennessee counties and west Tennessee.

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Fisherville, Tennessee

Fisherville is an unincorporated community lying between the jurisdiction of Fayette and Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.

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FlixBus

FlixBus (styled FLiXBUS) is a German brand that offers low-cost intercity bus services via 400,000 routes to over 5,000 destinations in more than 40 countries in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia.

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Freedman

A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

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Germantown Municipal School District

The Germantown Municipal School District (GMSD) is a municipal school district serving Germantown, Tennessee, United States.

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Germantown, Tennessee

Germantown is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.

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Gibson Brands

Gibson, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corporation and Gibson Brands Inc.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Graceland

Graceland is a mansion on a estate in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, once owned by American singer Elvis Presley.

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Great Migration (African American)

The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.

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Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines, Inc. (Greyhound) is a company that operates the largest intercity bus service in North America.

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Hannibal Lecter

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Harding School of Theology

Harding School of Theology, known until 2011 as Harding University Graduate School of Religion, is located in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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Haywood County, Tennessee

Haywood County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the region known as West Tennessee. Shelby County, Tennessee and Haywood County, Tennessee are black Belt (U.S. region), Majority-minority counties in Tennessee, Tennessee counties and west Tennessee.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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History of slavery

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day.

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Indie Memphis

Indie Memphis, located in Memphis, TN, is an arts organization that runs year-round programs that "inspire, encourage and promote independent films and filmmaking in Memphis.", Indie Memphis.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Isaac Shelby

Isaac Shelby (December 11, 1750 – July 18, 1826) was the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina.

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J. Massey Rhind

John Massey Rhind (9 July 1860 – 1 January 1936) was a Scottish-American sculptor.

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Jackson Purchase

The Jackson Purchase, also known as the Purchase Region or simply the Purchase, is a region in the U.S. state of Kentucky bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Tennessee River to the east.

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James Gamble Rogers

James Gamble Rogers (March 3, 1867 – October 1, 1947) was an American architect.

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Jefferson Lines

Jefferson Lines (JL or JLI) is a regional intercity bus company operating in the United States.

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Jim Crow laws

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American.

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Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.

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Kerrville, Tennessee

Kerrville is an unincorporated community on the northeast portion of Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.

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Lakeland School System

The Lakeland School System (LSS) is a municipal school district serving the city of Lakeland, Tennessee, United States, within Greater Memphis.

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Lakeland, Tennessee

Lakeland is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and a part of the Memphis metropolitan area.

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Lee Harris (politician)

Lee Ardrey Harris (born August 10, 1978) is an American politician who currently serves as the Mayor of Shelby County, previously serving as a member of the Tennessee Senate, representing the 29th district.

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LeMoyne–Owen College

LeMoyne–Owen College (LOC or "LeMoyne-Owen") is a private historically black college affiliated with the United Church of Christ and located in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Lenow, Tennessee

Lenow is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.

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Lichterman Nature Center

Lichterman Nature Center is a certified arboretum and nature center located in East Memphis, Tennessee.

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List of counties in Tennessee

There are 95 counties in the U.S. State of Tennessee. Shelby County, Tennessee and List of counties in Tennessee are Tennessee counties.

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List of U.S. states and territories by elevation

This list includes the topographic elevations of each of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories.

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Loosahatchie River

The Loosahatchie River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Lynching in the United States

Lynching was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Marshall County, Mississippi

Marshall County is a county located on the north central border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. Shelby County, Tennessee and Marshall County, Mississippi are counties in the Memphis metropolitan area.

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MATA Trolley

The MATA Trolley is a heritage streetcar transit system operating in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park

Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park is a state park in Shelby County, Tennessee near Memphis, located in the Southeastern United States.

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Megabus (North America)

Megabus is an intercity bus service of Coach USA/Coach Canada operating in the eastern, southern, midwestern, western, and Pacific United States and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Memphis 901 FC

Memphis 901 FC is an American professional soccer team based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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The Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) is the public transportation provider for Memphis, Tennessee.

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Memphis Botanic Garden

The Memphis Botanic Garden is a botanical garden located in Audubon Park at 750 Cherry Road, Memphis, Tennessee.

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Memphis City Schools

Memphis City Schools (MCS) was the school district operating public schools in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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Memphis College of Art

Memphis College of Art (MCA) was a private art college in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Memphis Grizzlies

The Memphis Grizzlies (referred to locally as the Grizz) are an American professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Memphis in May

Memphis in May International Festival is a month-long festival held in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Memphis International Airport

Memphis International Airport is a civil-military airport located southeast of Downtown Memphis in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.

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Memphis International Raceway

Memphis International Raceway (formerly known as Memphis Motorsports Park) was an auto racing park located near the Loosahatchie River in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, just approximately ten miles south of Millington, and a few miles north of the city of Memphis.

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Memphis metropolitan area

The Memphis–Clarksdale-Forrest City Combined Statistical Area, TN–MS–AR (CSA) is the commercial and cultural hub of the Mid-South or Ark-Miss-Tenn.

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Memphis Redbirds

The Memphis Redbirds are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Memphis Showboats

The Memphis Showboats were an American football franchise in the United States Football League.

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Memphis Suspension Railway

The Memphis Suspension Railway, Mud Island Monorail, or Memphis Monorail is a suspended monorail that connected the city center of Memphis with the entertainment park on Mud Island.

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Memphis Theological Seminary

Memphis Theological Seminary is an ecumenical seminary of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Memphis Zoo

The Memphis Zoo is a zoo in Midtown, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Shelby County, Tennessee and Memphis, Tennessee are 1819 establishments in Tennessee and populated places established in 1819.

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Memphis-Shelby County Schools

Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS), previously known as Shelby County Schools (SCS), is a public school district that serves the city of Memphis, Tennessee, United States, as well as most of the unincorporated areas of Shelby County.

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Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary

Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary is a Baptist theological institute located in Cordova in Shelby County, Tennessee (east of the City of Memphis).

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Millington Municipal Schools

Millington Municipal Schools (MMS) is a public school district serving Millington, Tennessee within the Memphis metropolitan area, United States.

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Millington, Tennessee

Millington is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and is a part of the Memphis metropolitan area.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Mississippi Delta

The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Mississippian culture

The Mississippian culture was a Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600, varying regionally.

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Mud Island, Memphis

Mud Island is a small peninsula in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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National Civil Rights Museum

The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights movement in the United States from the 17th century to the present.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Shelby County, Tennessee

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Shelby County, Tennessee.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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Nonconnah Creek

The Nonconnah Creek (or the Nonconnah Creek Drainage Canal) is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Northaven, Tennessee

Northaven is an unincorporated community located in north Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, that is a part of the Memphis metropolitan area.

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One man, one vote

"One person, one vote" or "one vote, one value" is a slogan used to advocate for the principle of equal representation in voting.

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Orpheum Theatre (Memphis)

The Orpheum Theatre, a 2,308-seat venue listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on the southwest corner of the intersection of South Main and Beale streets.

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Overton Park

Overton Park is a large, public park in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee.

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Pacific Islander Americans

Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent).

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Parson Brownlow

William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (August 29, 1805April 29, 1877) was an American newspaper publisher, Methodist minister, book author, prisoner of war, lecturer, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869 and as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1869 to 1875.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium

The Museum of Science & History - Pink Palace in Memphis, Tennessee, serves as the Mid-South's major science and historical museum and features exhibits ranging from archeology to chemistry.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Raleigh, Memphis

Raleigh is a community in north-central Memphis, Tennessee, United States, named for a formerly incorporated town that used to be at its center.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Rhodes College

Rhodes College is a private liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Roman law

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables, to the (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms are sometimes used synonymously.

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Rosemark, Tennessee

Rosemark is an unincorporated residential and farm community located along Tennessee State Route 14 in northeastern Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.

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Sam Cooper Boulevard

Sam Cooper Boulevard is an urban highway in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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Samuel H. Mays Jr.

Samuel Hardwicke Mays Jr. (born 1948) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

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Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

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Shelby County, Tennessee

Shelby County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Shelby County, Tennessee and Shelby County, Tennessee are 1819 establishments in Tennessee, black Belt (U.S. region), counties in the Memphis metropolitan area, Majority-minority counties in Tennessee, populated places established in 1819, Tennessee counties, Tennessee counties on the Mississippi River and west Tennessee.

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Shelby Farms

Shelby Farms is a public park located in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, just east of the city of Memphis.

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Shelby Forest, Tennessee

Shelby Forest is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.

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Southern College of Optometry

The Southern College of Optometry is a privately owned educational institution located in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Southwest Tennessee Community College is a public community college in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Statute

A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative body, a stage in the process of legislation.

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Suspension railway

A suspension railway is a form of elevated monorail in which the vehicle is suspended from a fixed track (as opposed to a cable used in aerial tramways), which is built above streets, waterways, or existing railway track.

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T. O. Fuller State Park

T.O. Fuller State Park is a state park in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

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Tennessee

Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Tennessee Senate

The Tennessee Senate is the upper house of the U.S. state of Tennessee's state legislature, which is known formally as the Tennessee General Assembly.

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The Commercial Appeal

The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area.

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The Silence of the Lambs (film)

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name.

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Three 6 Mafia

Three 6 Mafia is an American hip hop group from Memphis, Tennessee, formed in 1991.

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Tipton County, Tennessee

Tipton County is a county located on the western end of the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the Mississippi Delta region. Shelby County, Tennessee and Tipton County, Tennessee are counties in the Memphis metropolitan area, Tennessee counties, Tennessee counties on the Mississippi River and west Tennessee.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Union University

Union University is a private Baptist university in Jackson, Tennessee, with additional campuses in Germantown and Hendersonville.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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University of Memphis

The University of Memphis (Memphis) is a public research university in Memphis, Tennessee.

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University of Tennessee Health Science Center

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is a public medical school in Memphis, Tennessee.

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White Americans

White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people.

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Wolf River (Tennessee)

The Wolf River is a alluvial river in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi, whose confluence with the Mississippi River was the site of various Chickasaw, French, Spanish and American communities that eventually became Memphis, Tennessee.

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Yo Gotti

Mario Sentell Giden Mims (born May 19, 1981), known professionally as Yo Gotti, is an American rapper and music executive.

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Young Dolph

Adolph Robert Thornton Jr. (July 27, 1985 – November 17, 2021), better known by his stage name Young Dolph, was an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee.

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1944 United States presidential election

The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election.

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2010 United States census

The 2010 United States census was the 23rd United States census.

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2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee

The 2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated.

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2020 United States census

The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.

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2020 United States presidential election

The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

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8Ball & MJG

8Ball & MJG is an American hip hop duo from Orange Mound, Memphis, Tennessee.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County,_Tennessee

Also known as Memphis County, Tennessee, Shelby County Courthouse (Memphis, Tennessee), Shelby County Courthouse (Tennessee), Shelby County Sheriff's Office (Tennessee), Shelby County, TN, Tennessee Shelby County.

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