MEMPHIS, TN, December 03, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Memphis Tennessee is the City best known as the City where Dr. Martin Luther King was brutally assassinated April 4, 1968. Anthony "Amp" Elmore a Memphis born 5-Time World Kickboxing Champion and Memphis 1st "Black Memphis History" historian is fighting to honor and preserve "Black Memphis History."

The story in Memphis is: "History vs. Heresy." There exist a practice in Memphis of "Anti-Intellectualism and a Culture of Heresy that betrayals education.

While Memphis, Tennessee is the most populated city of African/Americans in America Memphis has a "Cotton Museum" and no "Black Memphis History Museum" whereas Memphis most significant investment of over 300 million in Liberty Pocket Park could be categorized as an ultimate inequity. Whereas a rock throw away in the African/American Community Orange Mound African Americans are being bamboozled by Black Memphis leaders.

Click here to view a 33 minute video titled: Memphis Mayor Paul Young Betrays Black America

Anthony "Amp" Elmore an advocate of Black Memphis History advocate that Orange Mound is not simply another neighborhood—it is the most legitimate, continuous, and symbolically powerful Black community born out of the post–Civil War era, and it deserves recognition, protection, and honor against the Memphis forces of racism, white supremacy, and historical theft.

Unknown and untold is the new Memphis Paul Young sign that notes "Orange Mound established in 1890 is "historical theft" and a part of Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism that erases "Black Memphis History."

Most people in Memphis have never hear of UNESCO. Black Memphis Historian Anthony "Amp" Elmore is seeking help from UNESCO to fight Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism. UNESCO is an acronym which stands for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. This is a UN specialized agency that works to build peace through international cooperation in education, the sciences, culture, and communication.

Its mission includes setting global standards for education and science, safeguarding cultural and natural heritage, and protecting freedom of expression and press freedom. It also develops tools and knowledge to tackle modern challenges like racism, hate speech, misinformation, and the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore is a Memphis born 5-Time World kickboxing champion and "The Father of Black Memphis History" is challenging Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism is seeking help from UNESCO to fight for justice not only for his "Orange Mound Historic Black Community in Memphis." Elmore is seeking justice and inclusion for Black people worldwide.

In a statement dated July 2, 2015, President Barack Obama acknowledged the historical significance of Orange Mound President Obama said: "As the first community developed in the United States to enable African-Americans to purchase land and homes, it played a groundbreaking role in driving progress at a difficult time."

Click here to view an Anthony "Amp" Elmore video regarding the 2016 1st Lady Michelle Obama officially designated Orange Mound a "Preserve America" community."

Unknown and untold in Memphis "Orange Mound is the "Birthplace of African Cultural Diplomacy" whereas The African Cultural Diplomacy honor is part of the narrative that is part of an initiative created by Anthony "Amp" Elmore called the "Orange Mound to Africa Initiative."

The Goal of the initiative seeks to build and formalize political, cultural, and trade relationships between the Orange Mound community and African nations, particularly Kenya. Anthony "Amp" Elmore's effort has taking up the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and connecting it to Africa, referencing the 1959 work of Kenyan leader Tom Mboya, who facilitated the airlifting of African students to the US for education (including President Barack Obama Sr.)

Anthony "Amp" Elmore is fighting Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism whereas the City Memphis and the State of Tennessee unjustly credit White Real Estate Salesman E.E. Meacham as the founder of Orange Mound.

Orange Mound is not the invention of the White man named E.E. Meacham as Orange Mound history is written by Laura Nickas via the "Tennessee Encyclopedia. Who is Laura Nickas and what gives her the authority to write about "Orange Mound" in the Tennessee Encyclopedia?

Anthony "Amp" Elmore is "The Father of Black Memphis History." Anthony "Amp" Elmore is the 1st person to not only chronical Black Memphis history Anthony "Amp" Elmore created Memphis only "Black Memphis History" digital Museum, cultural and educational center.

In regards to digital technology and Black Memphis history and Education Anthony "Amp" Elmore's digital Black Memphis History website has more Black Memphis history via digital technology than all of the schools, colleges, libraries in Memphis combined.

Click here to visit the Anthony "Amp" Elmore Black Memphis history Digital website titled: blackmemphishistory.com.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore is fighting for the legacy of Orange Mound that has been reduced to a white racist developer E.E. Meacham platting in 1890. Anthony "Amp" Elmore is fighting Memphis Black on Black racism to tell the true history noting that Orange Mound was born in 1879 via two Black Churches MT Moriah Baptist Church located at 2634 Carnes Avenue in Memphis and MT Pisgah CME Churches located at 2490 Park Avenue in Memphis

Anthony "Amp" Elmore tells the story that Orange Mound was founded out of the courage and determination of freedmen who, only fourteen years after the Civil War, claimed land, built homes, and created the thriving African American Memphis community of Orange Mound.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore is single handing fight to tell the world that the Community where he has lived for 53 years; Orange Mound stands today as the most continuous and most significant post–Civil War Black community in America.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore wants the world to know that the statement: "Orange Mound stands today as the most continuous and most significant post–Civil War Black community in America" means that among all the Black communities formed after emancipation, Orange Mound has endured the longest without interruption and carries the greatest weight in shaping Black history.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore explains that his fight for "Orange Mound is against Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism whereas Black Memphis Leaders are upholding White Supremacy via erasing the true Black History of Orange Mound.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore explains; continuity here is not just about survival—it signals leadership, resilience, and cultural authority. Anthony "Amp" Elmore admonish Black leaders; we must learn from the Jewish community that honors its past as the foundation for its future. Anthony "Amp" Elmore advocates that Orange Mound's uninterrupted existence makes it a historical jewel that should be revered and become a national Black Memphis History museum.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore explains that much of the culture and practice of Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism lies at the doorstep of "Memphis Tourism" and its CEO President Kevin Kane. While Memphis has an almost 70% African/American population and a "Cotton Museum" Memphis purposefully lacks "A Black Memphis History Museum" and a "planned erasure of Black Memphis history. In Memphis Kevin Kane developed a tourist culture that benefits only White citizens and White culture.

The greatest example of this is the National Civil Rights museum whereas the museum tells only how Dr. King died and not how Dr. King lived whereas "Memphis pimps the legacy of Dr. King via making the museum on a tourist attraction that benefits Whites.

Unknown and untold via the Civil war one in every four Black men fought for the Union Army. It was in 1905 whereas 10,000 Whites gathered to unveil the KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest sign whereas as a Forrest Biographer wrote: "Coloreds have been suddenly emancipated...and even invested with a certain authority...Black needed to be frighten into docility and Good Behavior." The city of Memphis erased any and all Black history related to the Civil war and Black agency.

It was just in 2022 where the name of Ku Klux Klan leader Clifford Davis named was removed from the Federal building in Memphis. It was under the cover of darkness in 2017 that the statue of Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue was removed in Memphis.

The greatest racism and disservice in Memphis is its practice and treatment of the historic African American community whereas there is a culture practice and erasure of Orange Mound's Black History.

While Orange Mound in Memphis holds Memphis significant Black history and Black Agency in the City of Memphis the "African American Community of "Orange Mound" whereas Black Agency has been erased and replaced with the history of Orange Mound's founding being awarded to a White real estate Salesman E.E. Meacham. This erasure is a planned strategy in Memphis to erase Black Memphis history and marginalize Black Achievement.

Let site one example: Orange Mound is the only community in America that has 3 Gold Medal winners who lived in the community and went to Melrose School at the same time. In fact Melrose school in Memphis is located on Deaderick Street a name of the White Slave owner who once owned a slave plantation in the area. The City of Memphis makes sure not to put up a marker to note that Black World history happen in Orange Mound to honor 3 Orange Mound Gold medal winners.

Click here to see the video titled: Black Memphis History Forrest Statue erected In Memphis in 1905 to Keep Blacks in Their place The culture and practice in Memphis is to marginalize Black achievement and honor White Supremacy like having Deaderick Street to honor a "Slave Master."

In 2006 Anthony "Amp" Elmore converted his Orange Mound Home into the "Safari House Museum Education and Cultural Center." Anthony "Amp" Elmore created "The 1st All African House in America" whereas Anthony "Amp" Elmore traveled to Ghana in West Africa and furnished his entire home via African furnishings. Churches, Schools and Tourist visited the home.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore invited Memphis Tourism Kevin Kane to Elmore's Orange Mound Home Museum. Anthony "Amp" Elmore proved there exists a need and an interest for a "Black cultural Tourist Attraction in Orange Mound." Kevin Kane turned down the idea and would not support any Black Tourist Attraction not measured by White Authority. In Kevin Kane's Memphis only White approved Tourism is promoted like Blues or the Stax Museum.

In the case of Orange Mound's significance in Memphis its authority lies in the fact that it embodies the lived experience of generations of African Americans, rooted in institutions like the Black Church, which served as the government of Black America by keeping records, preserving traditions, and anchoring identity. In Memphis both Black and White leaders work to insure that Orange Mound two Black Churches that started in 1879 story goes unknown and untold.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes; the misattribute of Orange Mound founding to the white real estate salesman E.E. Meacham in 1890 erases the deeper truth and erased history that these Black churches and families were already established there by 1879 11 years over a decade before the White man E.E. Meacham ever registered his racist plans for Orange Mound.

Thus Anthony "Amp" Elmore advocate Black Memphis History that Orange Mound is not simply another neighborhood—it is the most legitimate, continuous, and symbolically powerful Black community born out of the post–Civil War era, and it deserves recognition, protection, and honor against the Memphis forces of racism, white supremacy, and historical theft. Kevin Kane and Memphis Tourism do not support Tourism that benefits African/Americans that would empower Black youth to gain courage and dignity regarding their Community.

Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young sign and the Orange Mound Arts Council headed by Mary E. Mitchell are using their function and authority to erase this truth and replace it with the false narrative that the White real estate sales E.E. Meacham as the founder of Orange Mound.

In fact Mary E. Mitchell an elderly Black Female Orange Mound resident benefits via her practice of marginalizing Orange Mound. In 2017 White religious leader Don Gilbert got White Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell to honor Mary Mitchell who is today 89 years with the Honorary title of Orange Mound Historian. This tiled allowed Mary E. Mitchell to be the official voice of "Orange Mound" whereas any issues regarding Orange Mound would be filtered via Mary E. Mitchell.

One example property values in Orange Mound is 30% lower than that of surrounding communities the media can refer to Mary E. Mitchell and she praise Orange Mound as wonderful. In 2019 Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, White Don Gilbert, Africa in April Founder David Acey pulled a Sham on Black Memphis.

Don Gilbert formed a 5013C non profit called the "Orange Mound Arts Council." Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris pulled a con job on "Orange Mound." Lee Harris pull a sham via providing a "Forever Lease" to the fake Orange Mound Arts Council. The provided Mary E. Mitchell with a free tax payer building under the auspices of promoting art in Orange Mound.

These are the facts Mary E. Mitchell notes as a historian has never had a sentence published. At the time of this writing December 2025 she is 89 years old in poor health whereas she and Don Gilbert is running a scam. The White man Don Gilbert got a free building whereas Mary E. Mitchell is the "Front."

In July of 2024 Memphis Mayor Paul Young awards Mary E. Mitchell with newly remolded home. In regards to the "Orange Mound Arts Council" Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young will Wheel 89 year old Mary E. Mitchell out on a Wheel Chair to praise the New Orange Mound sign.

The Orange Mound Arts Council is running a scam honoring Orange Mound's Birth as 1890.

Click here to learn more details via the video titled: Memphis White Supremacy & Black Card! Leaders use Old Black Woman Mary Mitchell to exploit Blacks Memphis do not have to worry about White exploiting Blacks, Memphis got Black leader exploiting Blacks. Just view the video.

When Memphis Mayor Paul Young unveils his White Supremacist sign scheduled for Sunday December 7, 2025 a sign naming 1890 as Orange Mound's founding date, he and other White and Black institutions like the Commercial Appeal Newspaper, WKNO television, Orange Mound Arts Council, Leadership Memphis, the City of Memphis, Urban Art Memphis and others like Filmmaker Jay Killingsworth, and leaders like Dr. Charles Williams. Are erasing Black Memphis History.

Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young and other via the New Orange Mound sign is aligning themselves with the erasure of Black Memphis History and siding with a white supremacist myth that credits the White man E.E. Meacham for the achievements of ex‑slaves who are the legitimate founders of the African/American Orange Mound Community in Memphis.

This Memphis Black‑on‑Black racism is the more insidious form of Black leadership in Memphis City where Dr. Martin Luther King died whereas Black Memphis leaders are perpetuating the erasure of Black agency, denying dignity to the very ancestors who built Orange Mound.

Orange Mound's importance is unmatched. While other communities may predate it by a few years, none have sustained the cultural, political, and spiritual significance that Orange Mound embodies. It is not a "planned community for Blacks" designed by the White real estates salesman Meacham—it is a monument to Black freedom, resilience, and self‑determination. To frame it otherwise is to strip away its soul and reduce it to a developer's project. This distortion dishonors Black America and Black people worldwide, and it cannot be ignored.

Click here to see the Anthony "Amp" Elmore video titled: "Memphis Mayor Paul Young Sign is a Slave Mind."

In the video Anthony "Amp" Elmore declares he refuse to be a Slave from Orange Mound whereas Elmore encourages others not to accept the White Supremacist Narrative that the name "Orange Mound comes from an "Osage Orange Tree" that connects Orange Mound to a Slave Plantation.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore instead connects Orange Mound to the ancient African Mound builders who came to America from "Mali" in West Africa. Anthony "Amp" shares in the video the unknown and untold Ancient Black history. Elmore who met Dr. Ivan Sertima who wrote the 1976 book "They Came before Columbus" Elmore encourage viewers to learn Black world history whereas Elmore connects Orange Mound not to a slave plantation but Elmore connects Orange Mound to the untold story of "World Black History."

Anthony "Amp" Elmore explains why UNESCO's intervention is essential. The fight is not about just the date on the sign—it is about reclaiming Black agency, correcting historical erasure, and exposing the betrayal of Black Memphis leaders who perpetuate white supremacist myths.

In Memphis Anthony "Amp" Elmore face Black on Black on Black racism and ask UNESCO to bring attention to the fact that our new enemy is not just White on Black racism in Memphis it is the case of Black on Black Racism

Anthony "Amp" Elmore advocates; Orange Mound must be recognized for what it truly is: "The most continuous and most significant African American community formed by ex‑slaves in American history." Anything less is a fraud, a distortion, and a betrayal of our ancestors.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore effort at reframing the Orange Mound Narrative is based on Education and Black agency a claim often appears alongside Elmore's effort to reframe Orange Mound's history as also an "Afro-Indigenous community" with a triple heritage (Black African, Native American, and African American), challenging traditional historical accounts. Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes that while he is African/American DNA evidence notes that his great, great, great great-grand father was chief Powhatan Confederacy and Pocahontas was an aunt.

Click here to view Anthony "Amp" Elmore video titled: Black Memphis History We Share an Afro-Indigenous Legacy.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore's mission is education and the fight against Memphis White supremacy, Racism and Black on Black racism whereas there is a practice and culture in Memphis to erase and marginalize Black Memphis history. Evidence of this is the fact; while Memphis is the most populated city of African/Americans in America Memphis has a "Cotton Museum of no Black Memphis history Museum.

The above video teach about the Black unknown and untold "Triple Heritage." Whereas Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes we who call ourselves "African/American we are not all African from only Africa, whereas we share an "Afro-Indigenous Heritage" whereas many of our ancestors were not all Africans from Africa many of us Black Americans share part of the "Indigenous People" who are call "Indians.

Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young sign changes the founding date of Orange Mound from 1879 to 1890 erases the lived truth of Black agency. The Paul young sign betrays the legacy of Orange Mound the second Black post-civil war community in American history, whereas Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young sign accommodates white supremacist myths by silencing the evidence of Black resilience that predates Meacham's platting.

The White Real Estate Salesman E.E. Meacham purchased 60 acres of land in 1890 from Mattie Deaderick he registered the name "Orange Mound" that Blacks called their community whereas Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young falsely gives credit for founding the Black "Orange Mound Community in Memphis to White Real Estate Salesman E.E. Meacham.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore "The father of Black Memphis History" video makes clear that the "1890" sign erected under Memphis Mayor Paul Young is not a neutral mistake—it is an act of historical erasure. By anchoring Orange Mound's origin to E.E. Meacham, a white real estate salesman, the narrative strips away the documented reality and facts that Black Memphians had already secured land, built schools, and established permanence well before E.E. Meacham and 1890 registering the Community of Orange Mound.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore points out facts of history regarding the name Orange Mound whereas Elmore notes one has to only look at history regarding the "Word Mound." Mound has always associated with Native Americans and never used by White Americans. There are more than a dozen cities in America that use the name "Mound" and they are all associated to Native Americans.

In 1883 MT Moriah Baptist Church purchased the land where the Church sits today at 2634 Carnes Avenue in Memphis. In 1887 the 1st Black town formed in Mississippi called "Mound Bayou Mississippi." This association notes that Black Americans after the civil war were cognizant of the name "Mound" as used in naming their community.

The Osage Orange theory that state the name Orange Mound comes for a Mock Osage Orange tree on the Deaderick plantation is not just false, it is laughable theory taught by Black anthropologist Dr. Charles Williams and White chosen Orange Mound Historian Mary E. Mitchell. Such is a grotesque distortion of history meant to strip Black people of their agency and make "White Supremacist Happy."

In regards to education Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes; The Osage Orange tree was never a hedge grove, never a bloom, never a source of pride. It was a thorn‑covered fence line, despised for its ugliness and used only to pen in livestock. To claim that Orange Mound was named from such a plant is botanical nonsense and historical fraud and an uneducated theory.

The Osage Orange tree myth a white supremacist lie first penned by Barron Deaderick in 1949 to tie Black achievement to Confederate nostalgia. Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes that it is "Mind-Boggling" how and why Dr. Charles Williams would reference note just a White Supremacist in his 2013 Book "African/American life and Culture in Orange Mound;" Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes "this dude Barron Deaderick was the "Historian For the Sons of Confederate Veterans." Barron Deaderick not only praise the Ku Klux Klan he wrote a books titled "Forrest Wizard of the Saddle" about Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest."

This is a key point untold: "The fundamental intellectual failure that enabled this widespread betrayal of the E.E. Meacham fraud is Dr. Charles Williams decision to uncritically accept the core Orange Mound origin story directly from a white supremacist source."

The evidence is clear: Black anthropologist Dr. Charles Williams in his 2013 book African American life and Culture in Orange Dr. Williams notes: "according to local history and the writings of Barron Deaderick," the community "got its name from a large Osage orange hedgerow." This formulation proves that Dr. Charles Williams never questioned the origin story; he simply bundled the word of a White Supremacist Confederate historian—whose entire political purpose was to exalt the planter class and erase Black agency—with "local history."

By validating Barron Deaderick, a White Supremacist man who idolized the founder of the KKK, Dr. Charles Williams provided the academic shield necessary to legitimize the lie. This profound negligence allowed the Osage Orange Myth to endure and eventually enabled Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young to install a sign that betrays the revolutionary founding of Orange Mound in 1879 by former slaves, substituting genuine Black triumph with a narrative born from the pen of the Confederate Historian.

Click here to see and hear documented facts regarding Black Anthropologist Dr. Charles Williams listen to his lecture dated Saturday November 23, 2024: Titled; Anthony Elmore 21st Century Beyond Dr. Charles Williams Orange Mound Library Lecture Series Denial.

This is the culture of Memphis racism, White Supremacy and Black on Black Racism. While Dr. Charles Williams wrote the book about Orange Mound; Anthony "Amp" Elmore has lived in Orange Mound at the time of this writing for 53 years. Elmore is known for jogging through Orange Mound for 53 years. Anthony "Amp" Elmore purchased his 1st house in Orange Mound at 19 years old in 1972 whereas he open a business and his 1st store in Orange Mound at 2780 Lamar in 1974.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore introduced Kickboxing in Memphis in 1979 whereas Elmore opened a Karate school and an African Import store and another Carpet store a museum and created movie that made World Film history. Anthony "Amp" Elmore Memphis film shot in Orange Mound titled "The Contemporary Gladiator" is "The 1st Kickboxing film in World Film History."

In 1981 Anthony "Amp" Elmore is the "1st Person to bring E.S.P.N. to Memphis. In addition Anthony "Amp" Elmore brought "Black Entertainment Television to Memphis" in 1986. For the record Click here to see Anthony "Amp" Elmore fighting in Melbourne, Australia in 1990 wearing "The Red White and Blue." Elmore represents America fighting in front of 10,000 but in Memphis he is not allowed to speak at the Orange Mound Library to challenge Dr. William's White Supremacy teaching about E.E. Meacham.

The Orange Mound Library refused to allow Anthony "Amp" Elmore to speak at the Orange Mound library to challenge the E.E. Meacham Myth as taught by Dr. Charles Williams.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes that while he is shut out to speak at a library in my own community he has over 15,000 viewer registered on his You Tube Anthony "Amp" Elmore video Channel whereas his video channel has millions views.

While Anthony "Amp" Elmore cannot speak at the Library in Orange Mound Elmore created the video titled: Beyond Dr. Charles Williams Orange Mound Library Lecture series.

Today, Memphis Mayor Paul Young has betrayed Black America via erecting an Orange Mound sign that continues this false narrative. Memphis Mayor Paul Young's sign is not an act of leadership but one of capitulation, a surrender to myths that erase the truth of Black resilience.

In regards to this betrayal, Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young deserves not the name Paul Young but Paul Tom. Instead he can be called "Paul Dumb" who props up whitewashed lies instead of honoring the Orange Mound community's real legacy. Orange Mound was not born from thorns or fences, nor from the plot did sales of E.E. Meacham whereas it was claimed that E.E. Meacham started Orange Mound in 1990.

To perpetuate the Osage Orange myth is to spit on that legacy of Black people, and to betray the very people whose hands and voices made Orange Mound a monument to Black self‑determination.

The Anthony ' Amp" Elmore video proves the facts that the 1890 Orange Mound sign erected by Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young represents a modern form of "Black-on-Black Racism," where Black leaders are positioned to perpetuate the white supremacist myth that E.E. Meacham founded Orange Mound a story that erases the authentic dynamic Black history of Orange Mound.

In the Anthony "Amp" Elmore video title: Memphis Mayor Paul Young Betrays Black America video, Anthony "Amp" Elmore dismantles the long-standing "Meacham Myth" that credits white real estate agent E.E. Meacham with founding Orange Mound in 1890. Elmore shows that this narrative is not only historically false, but the E.E. Meacham narrative is also a deliberate erasure of Black agency.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore shows absolute conclusive proof that Black Memphians had already established permanence and resilience in Orange Mound before 1890. Anthony "Amp" Elmore explains that through the 1878 Yellow Fever epidemic whereas 25,000 Whites departed Memphis in a panic in 3 days, their departure opened unprecedented opportunities for Blacks whom moved to the former "Melrose Station area" in Orange Mound whereas in 1883 MT Moriah Baptist Church members purchase the land where the Church sits today at 2634 Carnes avenue at Boston Street in In Memphis.

Six years later after purchasing land at Carnes and Boston in 1889, the White Shelby County Government approved the 1st school Blacks in Shelby County a school that was at 1st called district 18. The School was to be built directly behind MT Moriah Baptist Church at Spottswood at Boston Street in Orange Mound.

In regards to Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism; please note that Shelby County has a majority of Black Shelby County Commissioners, a majority Memphis City Council and a majority Shelby County School Board. Whereas in Memphis, Tennessee it is not Whites who discriminate against Blacks, it is Blacks who discriminate against other Blacks

Please click here to view a July 10, 2025 24-7 National News press Release titled: Is Tennessee Black Female State Senator London Lamar Auditioning for America's Next top Model, beyond the weave, will she fight the White Supremacist narrative in the Black Community of Orange Mound.

The sub-title to the News release reads: Black Memphis Filmmaker Amp Elmore asks: Will Black Female TN State Sen. London Lamar help remove a racist historical marker in Orange Mound connected to a slave plantation myth written by the Sons of Confederate Veterans Historian Barron Deaderick.

On June 26, 2025 Tennessee State Senator London Lamar held a Townhall Meeting at the "Orange Mound Community Center. This Black woman came to the Orange Mound Community center with outright "Game and a Con Job." Her office does not answer calls and is she is "running a sham."

So there is no doubt regarding our Tennessee State Senator that represents Orange Mound simply read the national News Release. It seems that Tennessee State Senator London Lamar is more interested in "Black Weave that Black Welfare."

The News release convers the exact issue of the 1890 whereas we asked Tennessee State Senator London Lamar to deal with the issue of the small 1890 marker in Orange Mound whereas she told Elmore that he should should contact the Tennessee Historical Commission. In regards to Black on Black Racism African/Americans would be better off with a White Represent than Black Representative. The Black Senator told Anthony "Amp" Elmore to call the "Tennessee Historical Commission." What is her job and interest in Orange Mound. The proof is Black Tennessee State Senator London Lamar is more interested in "Black Weave than Black Well-being."

The story of having a White Representative vs. a Black Representative a White Representative would be more accountable to a majority Black District whereas Black leaders are better able to disregard and disrespect its constitutes as what is happening in Memphis

In the case of Orange Mound Tennessee legislators Gerrymandered Orange Mound our of a State Representative whereas it was the case the White Representative Mike Kernell and G. A. Hardaway whereas a state seat was erased whereas the White Mike Kernell vs. the Black G.A. Hardaway.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore calls G.A. Hardaway "The Smooth Criminal"whereas he moves in stealth cutting backroom deals and selling out Black America. Anthony "Amp" Elmore has known Tennessee State Representative G. A. Hardaway for over two decades. While Tennessee State Representative G. A. Hardaway represents "Orange Mound" his mandate like the mandate of many other African American elected officials is to represent "White Interests" whereas in Memphis there is an abundance of inequity of White interest vs. Black Interest.

The major case of inequity of the current over 300 million dollar investment in the area of Liberty Pocket Park where development is designed for White Suburban Memphis. While the inner-city Memphis is over 70% African/American investment in Liberty Pocket Park is designed for Whites to come and enjoy Volley ball while ignoring "Black Orange Mound."

Look at the case of Memphis Corporate Welfare whereas the City of Memphis invested over 6 million dollars in the failed NBC show in 2019 called "Bluff City Law" whereas Tennessee State Representative G.A. Hardaway and Tennessee State Senator Raumesh Akbari are on record of asking the state of Tennessee to spend 18 million dollars for the "Failed NBC Show Bluff City Law."

These Black representative were able trade "Black Capital" to benefit White Memphis. The State of Tennessee gave 3 Million for the project and the City and County kicked in another 3 million in tax incentives to billion dollar Comcast. There Black representatives would not have the courage to ask for 18 million dollars to fund a Black interest.

Click here to see the video titled: Tennessee Black Caucus Representative Hardaway Black on Black Racism

Most of Memphis Black Representatives commitment is to support "self and White Interests." Lets move back to the historical marker in Orange Mound. Orange Mound's Shelby County Commissioner is Britney Thornton. Orange Mound's City Council representative is Jana Swearengen Washington. They do not have the courage to challenge the White racist 1890 date. These Black leaders do not have the courage to put a Historical marker at the corner of Spottswood and Boston to note Black Memphis History of the 1st school for Blacks in Shelby County in Orange Mound before the White E.E. Meacham registered to sell lots in Orange Mound.

This is the ultimate smoking gun that proves the Mayor's sign is a deliberate fraud, and the refusal by Black leadership to acknowledge it is an act of calculated historical terrorism. The official **Shelby County Government minutes of 1889/1890** confirm the passage for the construction of the **First School for Blacks in Shelby County**—District 18, later called Melrose—located at the corner of Spotswood and Boston, **directly behind the 1883 Mt. Moriah Baptist Church.**

Anthony "Amp" Elmore has publicly asked leaders, including London Lamar, to address the scandalous absence of a historical marker at the corner of Spottswood at Boston noting the 1st School for Blacks in Shelby County. The fact is these Black elected officials maintain a strategic and deafening silence regarding the absence of the Historical Marker on Spottswood at Boston in Memphis.

Why? Because the school's existence, secured by Black taxpayers and built on a foundation established by former slaves, **destroys the 1890 Meacham myth and the Mayor's fraudulent sign.** The school is irrefutable proof of an established, stable Black community located **1.8 miles away from E.E. Meacham's 1890 speculation plot.**

This historical detonation, which even Dr. Charles Williams documents in his book but lacks the courage to affirm, exposes a planned strategy of Black historical deflection: the systemic refusal to erect this marker is a transparent attempt to rob Black America of the credit for founding their own community, maintaining the lie that Black communities are passive recipients of white benevolence rather than architects of our own destiny.

We asked Memphis Mayor Paul Young to stop the Memphis Shelby County Film Commission's Racism. In the Anthony "Amp" Elmore video noting Memphis Mayor Paul Young news Release we go into intense details explaining the Betrayal

Before there was an E.E. Meacham who only registered plans to sell only 981 partials of land 25 x 100 a Black school signals absolute proof there existed a stable Black Community prior to E.E. Meacham; the stable Black Orange Mound the name the Blacks called themselves, whereas there is proven prior Black community as noted by 1st Black School called "District 18 and Mt. Moriah Baptist Church that purchased the land in 1883 where the Church sits today at the time of this writing in December of 2025.

The video situates Mayor Young's 2025 sign within a broader historical pattern Malcolm X described as the "House Negro" mentality. Just as the House Negro identified with the master's suffering—"We sick"—Mayor Young's acceptance of the Meacham narrative is portrayed as siding with white supremacist distortions rather than defending Black truth.

This is framed as *Black-on-Black Racism*: when Black officials, whether knowingly or under pressure, enforce myths that harm their own community by legitimizing white-authored falsehoods. Elmore underscores that figures like Dr. Charles Williams and Mary E. Mitchell recycled Confederate historian Barron Deaderick's plantation-based narrative, further entrenching the erasure of Black agency.

The betrayal is not only local but national. By enshrining "Est. 1890" on the Orange Mound sign, Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young symbolically validates a false origin story that diminishes the role of Black resilience and leadership in Memphis history. Elmore argues that this act unites both Black and white elites in perpetuating a racist narrative—an alliance that mirrors the "Black-on-Black Racism" phenomenon where Black leaders are used to shield white supremacy from accountability.

In this framing, the erasure of Orange Mound's true origins is not accidental but systemic: a collaboration across racial lines that undermines Black historical authority and denies future generations the truth of their heritage.

In essence, the video contends that the Orange Mound sign is more than a marker—it is a symbol of betrayal, where Black leadership is co-opted to erase Black history, echoing Malcolm X's warning about the House Negro and exposing how Black-on-Black Racism functions as a tool of white supremacy.

In his 2013 book titled African/American life and culture in Orange Mound: Case Study of a Black Community in Memphis, Tennessee, 1890-1980 Dr. Williams writes: "Since the emancipation of enslaved Africans in the Mid-South and Shelby County specifically, the vast majority of newly freed African Americans were without a community of their own, and where ownership of property could ensure them of one, and where ownership of property could ensure the of one of the basic rights of citizenship: homeownership. This dream deferred did not become a reality until Elzey Eugene Meacham, local real estate broker developed a subdivision for African Americans which he named Orange Mound in 1890."

Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes that Dr. Charles Williams words are outright "incredulous." Elmore who is the "First Black Memphis History Historian" encourage readers to:

Click here view one of his Black Memphis History videos titled: "Black Memphis History Yellow Fever of 1878 reason of gains & Rise of Blacks in Memphis.

The video *Yellow Fever Epidemic: Reason for Gains and Rise of Blacks in Memphis* highlights a critical but often overlooked turning point in Memphis history. In 1878, the Yellow Fever epidemic devastated the city, causing as many as 25,000 whites to flee Memphis permanently.

This exodus created unprecedented opportunities for African Americans, who not only gained access to property ownership but also assumed leadership roles in the city of Memphis in1879.

Memphis 1st Black Millionaire Robert R. Church hired Black Militias to become policed officers to protect property and people. Robert R. Church purchase much property. Blacks gained because 25,000 Whites left Memphis in 3 days. The yellow fever is associated to malaria that Killed Whites and mainly made Blacks sick. There were 14,000 Blacks and only 6000 Whites left in Memphis whereas Black buried the dead and cared for the sick.

In 1879 home ownership was not as Dr. Charles William falsely write a "Dream Deferred" Blacks ran both Memphis and Shelby County starting in 1879. In 1879 Memphis lost its charter and became only a taxing district, whereas also in 1879 two Black Churches: MT Moriah Baptist Church and MT Pisgah CME Church formed in 1879.

Mt. Moriah Baptist purchased the land where the church sit today in 1883. In 1889 the Shelby County Government minutes approved the establishment of the first school for Blacks in Shelby County called "District 18" that would later become Melrose. The school was built in 1890 directly behind MT. Moriah Baptist Church on the corner of Spottswood at Boston.

The Shelby County Government building a school demonstrate that a thriving stable tax paying Black community existed well before the White E.E. Meacham's presented only plans to sell plots of land in 1890 is not the same as creating a subdivision.

These facts directly contradict Dr. Charles Williams' 2013 book *African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound*, which credits Meacham as the originator of Black homeownership in Memphis. By ignoring the Yellow Fever era and the agency of Black Memphians who built institutions and communities prior to Meacham, Williams' narrative inadvertently reinforces white supremacist erasure of Black achievement.

Dr. Charles Williams framing elevates Meacham as a benefactor while marginalizing the lived reality of Black resilience and leadership. The video argues that this distortion is not accidental but systemic—where academic authority and civic recognition are used to perpetuate myths that diminish Black agency.

Anthony Amp Elmore's documentation restores the truth: Orange Mound was not born from Meacham's benevolence, but from the strength and determination of Black Memphians who seized opportunity in the wake of tragedy, building a community that predates and transcends the 1890 narrative.

This erasure is not just local—it is national. Because Black Memphis Mayor endorsed the E.E. Meacham myth, it signals acquiescence to white supremacy. It tells America that Black history can be rewritten to fit the comfort of dominant narratives. Silence in the face of this erasure becomes complicity.

The crucial piece of evidence that Black Memphis Mayor, Dr. Charles Williams, Mary E. Mitchell, Jay Killingsworth and historians write about Orange Mound is The 1911 Montgomery Park Place advertisements proves Orange Mound was envisioned as a high-class subdivision for African Americans, led by a Black middle class demanding infrastructure and rejecting shotgun slum schemes. To ignore this record is to betray the very people who fought for dignity and modernity against racist caricatures. The 1911 add specifically notes a "High Class Residents for Coloreds."

In 1894 E.E. Meacham ran an add in the Commercial Appeal that specifically state that his community was that of 100 houses strictly for Tenants. There is no reference to any home being purchased via homeowners. The case is in 1890 E.E. Meacham presented plans to sell 981 parcels of land however there does not exist not a single record of a Shotgun house being built on the E.E. Meacham 60 acres.

The impossibility of Meacham's plan—981 shotgun houses crammed onto 60 acres with outdoor toilets and wells—further exposes the fraud. The E.E. Meacham plans are a matter of public record and the plans are a matter of fraud. E. E. Meacham purchased 60 acres of land specially the area was Park Avenue on the South, Airways on the West, Cable on the North and Marechalneil on the East.

Today on that property is designed for 367 homes in the existing space. Per E.E. Meacham's of 981 homes via a 25 x 100 lot would mean adding 614 more houses in the existing space with would be impossible due to "Wells and Out door toilets." In 1890 there was no Water, plumbing, sewerage, what about garbage. The E.E. Meacham numbers does not add up.

The fact is E.E. Meacham was a "White Racist." E.E. Meacham created "The Negro Scheme." The only problems Negroes did not buy the "Shot Gun House Scheme." However African Americans made a historic effort to accept the "Montgomery Park Place" opportunity for an upper middle Class Community equal to that of a White Community. The Montgomery Place adds noted Bank Financing, sidewalks, trees and advertised "A fancy residence for Colored People."

The fact that Black Memphis Mayor Paul enshrining "1890" on a public sign, the city Memphis legitimizes a fantasy that never existed. This betrayal is deeper than the date; it is the denial of Black agency, the silencing of Black voices.

Mayor Paul Young's Orange Mound's 1890 established date is the accommodation of Confederate historians like Barron Deaderick, who recycled racist myths about hedge trees and plantations. Such acts perpetuate the ideology that Black communities are passive recipients of white benevolence rather than architects of their own destiny.

To betray Orange Mound is to betray Black America. Orange Mound is not just a neighborhood—it is a monument to Black resilience, a living proof that African Americans built thriving communities in the face of systemic oppression. Because Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young and Black Memphis leaders endorse the false Orange Mound date, they betray every Black community that has struggled to preserve its history against erasure. They betray the principle that history must reflect truth, not convenience. And they betray the generations who fought for recognition, dignity, and permanence.

This Memphis Mayor Paul Young rebuttal is clear, the issue of Black Memphis Mayor Paul changing the date of the true birth of Orange Mound Mound is not a clerical error—it is a weapon of erasure. It rewrites Black triumph into white myth, betrays the community's legacy, and accommodates white supremacy by silencing the truth.

To correct this injustice is not optional; it is a moral imperative. Orange Mound's true history must be restored, not only for Memphis but for Black America, because the erasure of one community's agency is the erasure of all Black American History which is "American History."

About Us

"If Lions were historians, hunters would no longer be heroes." This powerful African proverb encapsulates the mission of the Orange Mound News Network (OMNN). Founded by Anthony Amp Elmore, OMNN aims to reclaim and reshape the narrative of Orange Mound through the power of filmmaking, education, and content creation. Our goal is to challenge the negative stereotypes and biased portrayals that have long plagued our community, creating a positive space for family, Black culture, history, and education.

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