Overton Park: A Peoples History Lamb BrooksPaperback
Overton Park: A Peoples History Lamb BrooksPaperback At the heart of Memphis lies Overton Park, a 342-acre public space that contains the world-class Memphis Zoo, an old-growth forest, the Memphis…
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Overton Park: A Peoples History Lamb BrooksPaperback
At the heart of Memphis lies Overton Park, a 342-acre public space that contains the world-class Memphis Zoo, an old-growth forest, the Memphis College of Art, an amphitheater, and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, among other beloved amenities. Performers like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash have dazzled audiences there, while local children have long enjoyed its playgrounds and runners its jogging trails. Founded in 1901, the park has been at the center of both celebration and controversy.
Late in the 1960s and throughout the 1970s, when the proposed route of Interstate 40 threatened the park, concerned citizens banded together to fight the plan--a struggle that reached the Supreme Court and eventually saved the park for During the civil rights era, desegregating the park became a major goal of local activists, and the park's Greensward was the scene of protests against the Vietnam War.
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