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The Clayborn Temple Church in Memphis, with 130 years of history, went up in flames on April 28. The Downtown Memphis historic church and birthplace of an iconic Civil Rights Movement caught fire ...
The Clayborn Temple hosted nightly meetings and the campaign's iconic "I AM A MAN" posters were made in its basement. The temple was also a staging point for marches to City Hall.
An artist who has opened an art gallery on S. Main Street in Downtown Memphis is creating a painting from which he said he will produce prints to generate money and donate a portion of the funds to ...
"Clayborn Temple was, and will continue to be, a house not just of gathering, but of movement, resilience, and rebirth. Fire can take down walls, but it cannot destroy the spirit that built them." ...
MEMPHIS, TN — Large portions of the historic Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, a key meeting spot for the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to ...
Clayborn Temple will be rebuilt. That was the message on May 28 as hundreds of people — civil rights leaders, Memphis officials, nonprofit directors, tourists and residents — stood before the ...
Clayborn Temple in Memphis, largely destroyed by fire on April 28, will be rebuilt. A $1.5 million grant from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund will support the reconstruction.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Clayborn Temple Church in Downtown Memphis went up in flames early Monday morning. The second-alarm fire was reported just before 1:40 a.m. at the historic church and civil ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Following the devastating fire at Historic Clayborn Temple on April 28, 2025, the community is being called together for a special event: “Picking Up the Ashes: A Gathering ...
The Clayborn Temple hosted nightly meetings and the campaign’s iconic “I AM A MAN” posters were made in its basement. The temple was also a staging point for marches to City Hall.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The historic Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, a landmark with ties to Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement, caught on fire early Monday morning. Officers … ...
Clayborn Temple in Memphis, largely destroyed by fire on April 28, will be rebuilt. A $1.5 million grant from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund will support the reconstruction. The ...