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Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968, caught fire ...

The landmark church was a foundation of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther ... and political expressions for Memphis’s African American communities. The landmark is notably known ...

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Regan Prater set fire to the main offices of the Highlander Research and Education Center and took credit for it in encrypted ...

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We honor its history and we are committed to supporting efforts to rebuild this cornerstone of the civil rights movement," they ... the building was sold to an African Methodist Episcopal ...

A monument to Memphis' resilience became a symbol of its ongoing challenges when historic Clayborn Temple was ravaged by fire on April 28.