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The historic Clayborn Temple Church in Memphis caught fire early Monday morning. Here's what we know about the fire and church so far.
Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis, a key location during the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike and Civil Rights Movement, was ravaged by fire on April 28. Community members and leaders expressed ...
Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968, caught fire early Monday morning.
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 ...
The Clayborn Temple Church in Downtown Memphis went up in flames early Monday morning.
As Memphians came to mourn outside the remnants of Clayborn Temple, a message of rebuilding — bolstered by a $1.5 million grant — was affirmed.
Clayborn Temple was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Anasa Troutman has been leading the restoration effort as executive director of Historic Clayborn Temple.
The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple , a historic Black church in downtown Memphis with ties to Martin Luther King Jr., was intentionally set, investigators said Wednesday.
Clayborn Temple was at the center of the civil rights movement and where a march that brought Martin Luther King Jr. to the city started.
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 … ...