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MLK50: Justice Through Journalism

On poverty, power and public policy

Category: Bridge Protest

Remembering July 10, 2016: The day they took the bridge

by Andrea Morales July 10, 2020January 21, 2021

On Sunday, July 10, four years ago, protesters created the most significant act of spontaneous civil disobedience in recent memory. They flooded Memphis streets, heading over a bridge that spans the Mississippi River’s rushing waters. Days after white police officers gunned down Alton Sterling, a Black man in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, a […]

One year later, Memphians remember the bridge protest

by Micaela Watts July 10, 2017October 5, 2020

In their own words

by Molly Mulroy July 9, 2017October 5, 2020

Policing the Protesters

by Micaela Watts July 8, 2017October 5, 2020

‘Take it to the bridge’

by Wendi C. Thomas July 7, 2017October 5, 2020

Sunday rally planned to mark one-year anniversary of Memphis bridge protest

by Wendi C. Thomas July 7, 2017October 5, 2020

When A City Fails To Hear

by Andrea Morales July 7, 2017October 5, 2020

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