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The Watauga Association at Sycamore Shoals near Elizabethton, Tennessee drafted the first constitution ever written by white men in America in 1772. It was patterned after the constitution of the Iroquois League of Nations, a federal system of government. |
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The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee is at the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was slain in 1968. The museum preserves the motel and tells the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. |
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Robert R. Church, Sr. of Memphis, Tennessee is purported to be the South's first African-American millionaire. |
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