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Through it all, one constant the people. Despite every challenge, there have been people to stand up for one another. There has always been someone willing to work so East Knoxville could see better days. Starting with the construction of Magnolia Avenue, through the turbulent years of Urban Renewal and looking forward to its future, we are looking at the history of East Knoxville and how it became what it is now. Magnolia Avenue: The road to the future At the advent of a new century, in the late 1880s, travelers in East Tennessee would traverse boundless trees and mountains for a promise of refuge in Knoxville. ....
Daniel Brown has always had an affinity for Dr. Walter Hardy Park in East Knoxville. He says it feels like home. It should. Brown’s family was forced out of their home before it was acquired and torn down by the city in the late 1960s as part of the sweeping urban removal program that displaced thousands, mostly for civic projects and new infrastructure. After the site sat vacant for nearly two decades, the city built the park, dedicated to local Black physicians, where his family home once stood. Those memories fill Brown’s mind, but the former interim mayor and two-term city councilman pays them little attention. He told Knox News recently he’s just happy action is being taken to right the wrong. It’s a great step in the right direction, he said. ....
On Thursday night, the Beck Cultural Exchange Center hosted âA Movement of Black Arts & Culture,â highlighting Black artists and creatives in Knoxville. Held over Zoom, the event began with Renee Kesler, the President of the Beck Cultural Exchange, introducing the panelists and speaking about the intentions of the event. âWe want to help you understand the importance of black art and culture⦠we want this to be a platform for sharing ideas,â Kelser said. Then, Kesler shared a video of the Stanford Talismanâs performance of âLift Evâry Voice and Sing,â what she called the Black national anthem. âBlack history always has to start with the black national anthem,â Kesler said. ....
The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first - and it will probably not be the last - challenge endured by the funeral home. Jarnigan & Son is the only Black-owned business operating today to survive urban removal, a series of construction projects from 1959-74 that saw Black homes, churches and storefronts razed to make room for the Knoxville Civic Coliseum and the James White Parkway interstate loop. The impact of the upheaval is still being reckoned with today. Bourne, 74 and president of Jarnigan & Son for four decades, has been to more burials than he can count. He attributes the business’ longevity to its guiding principles: treating everyone with dignity, giving back to the community and never turning anyone away. ....