Fouche Family Reunion 2021

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  1. 3. This world champion is crowned at Memphis in May contest
  2. 5. Motel where MLK was slain
  3. 9. Indian tribe indigenous to Tennessee
  4. 12. Largest city on the Mississippi River
  5. 13. "King of Rock and Roll"
  6. 14. Epidemics of ________ fever devastated Memphis in 1870s
  7. 16. Park and Zoo named after one of Memphis' founders
  8. 17. "Boss" in Memphis politics from 1910s-1950s
  9. 19. Multinational courier, Memphis' largest employer
  10. 21. Major economy of antebellum South
  11. 23. Memphis in______, Memphis' month-long series of events promoting the city
  12. 24. Al_____, nickname after infamous scalding by girlfriend
  13. 28. TV show featuring Isaac Hayes in the 1970s-1980s
  14. 29. Memphis ________,"greatest soul horn section ever"
  15. 31. _______ Law, former TV series filmed in Memphis starring Jimmy Smits
  16. 33. Memphis ________, 1990 war film starring Harry Connick,Jr
  17. 35. Memphis Museum dedicated to this movement in the 1960s
  18. 36. _______ Waters "Father" of modern Chicago blues
  19. 37. _______ Temple, MLK gave his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech here
  20. 38. Legendary Memphis recording company
  21. 39. Memphis' NBA team
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  1. 1. _______ Brothers, Belushi movie featuring the "Memphis sound"
  2. 2. Elvis' Memphis Home
  3. 4. Memphis' famous blues street
  4. 6. Green _______, song co-written by Booker T. Jones
  5. 7. Memphis is international headquarters of this Church
  6. 8. Tri-State ________, Memphis weekly newspaper serving African American Community
  7. 10. WC ______, "Father" of the Blues
  8. 11. Danny ______, founder of Memphis' St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
  9. 15. ________-Owen, Memphis historically black college founded 1871
  10. 18. Home to lobby ducks
  11. 20. St. Jude _______, patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes
  12. 22. ________ Mound, First neighborhood in American built by and for African-Americans
  13. 25. _______ Man, a "Song of the Century," written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter
  14. 26. "Black Moses"
  15. 27. 7th US President and one of Memphis' founders
  16. 30. ________Life Insurance Co, founded in Memphis in 1923 to "improve the economic condition of people of color"
  17. 32. Carla and Rufus
  18. 34. Memphis was named after ancient capital in this country