{"id":28597,"date":"2025-04-28T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28597"},"modified":"2025-04-28T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:49:07","slug":"civil-rights-movement-landmark-clayborn-temple-destroyed-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/28\/civil-rights-movement-landmark-clayborn-temple-destroyed-by-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights Movement landmark Clayborn Temple destroyed by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4}}\">Civil rights movement landmark Clayborn Temple has <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/photos-fire-destroys-historic-clayborn-temple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burned to the ground<\/a>. Firefighters were called to MLK Avenue and Hernando Street about 1:30 this morning. The building is said to be a total loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The building was a key gathering place in the sanitation workers&#8217; strike of 1968, a strike which brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clayborn_Temple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clayborn Temple<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights movement landmark Clayborn Temple has burned to the ground. Firefighters were called to MLK Avenue and Hernando Street about 1:30 this morning. The building is said to be a total loss. The building was a key gathering place in the sanitation workers&#8217; strike of 1968, a strike which brought Dr. Martin Luther King, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/28\/civil-rights-movement-landmark-clayborn-temple-destroyed-by-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Civil Rights Movement landmark Clayborn Temple destroyed by fire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28598,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597\/revisions\/28598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->