# Tennessee
10 Facts and Theories that Will Make You Rethink the Murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, the Civil Rights Movement, and human decency, was dealt a savage blow. On this day, the great Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered by…
This White Reporter Posed as a Black Man in the Deep South for a Story
Ray Sprigle won the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1938 for a series of articles he wrote which proved that…
America’s First Serial Killers Were Kicked Out of a Pirate Gang For Being Too Violent
The American Revolution opened the lands west of the Allegheny Mountains to settlement and Americans poured west to the rich…
This Ship Disaster was the Titanic of the 19th Century
Just after the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912, a group of people met in Knoxville, Tennessee. However, they…
Today in History: Martin Luther King Jr. Is Assassinated (1968)
If you had to make a list of the top ten most memorable Americans to ever live, Dr. Martin Luther…
This Day In History: The Union Captures Chattanooga In The American Civil War
On this day in history during the American Civil War, the Union captures the key Confederate stronghold of Chattanooga. This…