Isaac Hayes' Memphis legacy is great Soul Music at a great restaurant and nightclub. Neeley's Bar-B-Q, B.B. King's Blues Club, and many other restaurants and nightclubs also contribute to an exciting array of dining and dancing options ... More

SHOPS and GALLERIES

A small, but valuable collection of gift shops, bookstores, boutiques and record shops with vast collections of hard-to-find music will tickle the fancy of

seasoned travelers and shoppers of a specific mission to find ... More

PLACES OF WORSHIP

One of our nation's standard-bearers for the Black Church, Memphis hosts

the mother churches for Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and

Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) denominations ... More

GENERAL ATTRACTIONS

Always lively Beale Street headlines a list of attractions that include Peabody Place, Orpheum Theatre, The Pyramid, Canon Center for the Performing Arts,

a Gibson Guitar factory tour, Southland Greyhound Park ... More

ART and HISTORY MUSEUMS

Rock n’ Soul Museum, Center for Southern Folklore, Graceland - Elvis Presley estate,

Sun Studio, Brooks Art Museum, Memphis University Art Museum ... More

BLACK GENESIS - MEMPHIS

   European immigrans arrived in larger numbers in the early 1800s, when Tennessee was admitted to the Union. Slavery came with it to drive the local

cotton plantations. Memphis’ early economic infrastructure ... More

BEALE STREET

In 1869, during the Reconstruction Era, First Baptist Church, with a Black

congregation opened on Beale Street. In the 1870s, Robert Church began

acquiring properties in the area surrounding and including Beale Street.

Church’s business acumen saved the City of Memphis ... More

FAMILY ATTRACTIONS

Mud Island River Park, Memphis Zoo, Children's Museum of Memphis,

Autozone Baseball Park, Memphis Pink Palace Museum & Planetarium,

FedEx Forum, and Libertyland Amusement Park ... More

THE LAST DAYS OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

In death, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. achieved more human and labor rights

breakthroughs than he could in life. His posthumous achievements

was a lightening rod that spread to other municipalities of the South ... More

MEMPHIS BARBEQUE

Meat lovers, rejoice! On par with Kansas City’s Beef Barbeque Tradition,

Memphis Pork Barbeque Tradition is best expressed at the

Memphis in May Barbeque Festival and great barbeque restaurants ... More

STAX RECORDS IMPACT ON SOUL MUSIC

In the 1940s, Early R&B artists born in the Deep South migrated to Memphis, St. Louis, New Orleans, Detroit, Chicago, NYC, Philadelphia and LA to meet innovative record companies, radio station DJs and perform in nightclubs ... More

BLUES and EARLY R&B

The Blues originated in hundreds of juke joints in the Mississippi Delta region,

triangle between Memphis, Jackson and Natchez, Mississippi. This

authentic American musical form is a 12-bar verse with repetitive chorus, sung

with sorrowful, Gospel-like passion by the descendants of African slaves ... Mores

SUN RECORDS TAKES ROCK N’ ROLL TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Sam Phillips, a former DJ and white record producer in Memphis, entered the

Rock n' Roll picture in the early 1950s. Phillips was arguably the first White

Southern record producer to hire African American Blues artists ... More

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