MEMPHIS, TN, March 03, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Black history of Memphis and its erasure of the Black Memphis City of "Fort Pickering and the "Untold Origin of the 14th Amendment is part of the Memphis Culture and practice of White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism that erases and obscures "Black Memphis history."

The practice and culture of Memphis, Tennessee, is to present Black history through the lens of White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black racism that obscures the profound legacy of "Black Memphis history."

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Andrew Jackson Found Memphis on Slavery White Supremacy & Racism Anthony "Amp" Elmore who is the "Father of Black Buddhism" is also "The Father of Black Memphis History." Based on his Black Buddhist practice via life and education and regarding "Cause and Effect Teachings" Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes there is a planned strategy and erasure of "Black Memphis History" that the inequality and disparaging and inequality conditions in Memphis are the result or a planned strategy to erase "Black Memphis History. Elmore notes that to understand our present we must look at our past.

Because of Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black racism no Black leader in Memphis has the courage to advocate for "Black Memphis history." It is at the corner of "Spotswood and Boston" street in the Black Orange Mound Community where Black Memphis Leaders purposefully ignore the January 1889 Black Memphis victory whereas Black homeowners in the late 1880's petition the Shelby County government to build the 1st School for Blacks in the County of Shelby a whereas Memphis, Tennessee is a part of.

This Black School in Shelby County was named "District 18" was approved to be built by the Shelby County Government in January of 1889. The school was built directly behind the Mt Moriah Baptist Church at the corner of Spottswood and Boston in the Historic Black Memphis Community of Orange Mound. Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes that Black Memphis leaders refuse to acknowledge the significance of the historic "Black District 18 School."

Click here to view a MEMPHIS, TN, July 10, 2025 /24-7PressRelease written by Anthony "Amp" Elmore note how not only Black Tennessee State Senator Lamar London who represents Orange Mound it shows how both Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young are "Selling out Black Memphis."

In the National News Release Anthony "Amp" Elmore presents forensic evidence of the "Betrayal of Black Memphis leaders."

Unknown and untold in Memphis a White Real estate developer by the name of E.E. Meacham a savvy real estate investor purchased 64 acres of land 1.8 miles away from "Spottswood and Boston whereas he would register plans in May of 1890 to sell 981 lots of land 25 x 100 to take advantage of the upcoming 1st Black school for Blacks in Shelby County named "District 18" that later became Melrose school.

The city of Memphis erased the history of the Black district 18 school that would become Melrose school whereas both Blacks and Whites united to erase the Black achievement and history and credit the White man E.E. Meacham who never built his shotgun house community or never started "Orange Mound." The issue in Memphis is "White Supremacy" whereas a White is given credit for "Black Agency."

The Black person who has credited most from the erasure of the correct history of Orange Mound is Mary E. Mitchell born in 1936 used her elderly status to diminish Black empowerment via connecting Black Orange Mound to the Deaderick Plantation that no longer existed after the civil war.

Memphis leaders both Blacks and Whites united to erase Black Memphis history. In the city of Memphis. Blacks who erase Black Memphis history are rewarded by the Memphis White establishment. Mary E. Mitchell was rewarded for her effort and role of erasing the "Correct Orange Mound history" via propagating the narratives of the White Supremacist Barron Deaderick who wrote in the "Press Scimitar" news paper that the name Orange Mound comes from an Osage Orange tree on his grandfather's plantation.

Click here to see a June 24, 2024 International EIN News Release titled: Anthony "Amp" Elmore: Pioneering Black Memphis History and Building Bridges with Africa

The June 18, 2024 News release reads: "Elmore's passion for America, his community, honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and helping future generations, Elmore is using filmmaking, Cultural Diplomacy, Family, History and Education in the fight for racial justice for Blacks in Memphis. Anthony "Amp" Elmore connected Orange to its African Roots.

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Elmore is dedicating his life to chronicling "Black Memphis History" via film. Elmore is reshaping our understanding and is giving youth a vehicle into "Black Memphis history" and Africa. Elmore created "The Black Memphis History Website."

Click here to visit the Black Memphis History Website.

Via the June 18, 2024 Anthony "Amp" Elmore International News release Anthony "Amp" Elmore asked Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young for assistance for the Black community of Orange Mound.

These are the exact words of the News Release: "On April 30, 2024, newly elected African/American Memphis Mayor Paul Young visited Orange Mound via his "One Memphis Tour." Elmore pleaded with Mayor Young to acknowledge "Black Memphis History" and stop the Memphis Film Commission, Shelby County Historical Commission and Indie Memphis "White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism" via their silence in denying Elmore's Black Memphis Film History."

Elmore asked Mayor Young to create jobs, culture and enlightenment via trade, culture and Family with Africa. Cultural Exchange: Learning about different histories and cultures can broaden perspectives and foster a deeper understanding of one's roots."

On December 7, 2025 Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young betrayed Black America via Installing a Historic Marker noting Orange Mound Birth was 1890 to support the White Supremacist E.E. Meacham narrative as the founder of Orange Mound in 1890 based only on plans with no evidence of a community ever being built.

Click here to see the Anthony "Amp" Elmore video titled: NARA Historian Anthony "Amp" Elmore Fight Black Memphis Leaders Uncle Tom Betrayal of Orange Mound

Anthony "Amp" Elmore research revealed a long term practice, culture and history of Memphis, Tennessee is to erase "Black Memphis History" and there exist a history and culture in Memphis of Black on Black racism whereas Black Memphis leader erase Black Memphis History.

Click here to see the a June 11, 2024 You Tube video titled: Tennessee Black Caucus Representative Hardaway Black on Black Racism

Anthony "Amp" Elmore calls Tennessee State Representative G.A. Hardaway who represents "Orange Mound" (The Smooth Criminal.) Elmore notes Hardaway neatly dressed, soft spoken with the bow tie is the "Snootiest of the criminals."

Elmore and Hardaway go back years when they both worked for their mutual friend Randy wade who ran for Sherriff of Shelby County. Elmore notes to G.A. Hardaway; "you know I am Memphis 1st Independent 35mm Theatrical filmmaker and Orange Mound deserves Credit as the birthplace of 35mm theatrical filmmaking in Memphis." Tennessee State Representative side with Kevin Kane of Memphis Tourism to build only tourism that benefits only Whites.

Tennessee State Representative G.A. Hardaway and Black Tennessee State Senator Raumesh Akbari voted to make it their top priority to use their Black capital and goodwill to ask the Tennessee State Legislator to grant 18 million dollars for the "Failed NBC Bluff City law series." G.A. Hardaway and Raumesh traded Black capitol and Good will to benefit a clearly White project.

Click here to read the July 18, 2019 Story in the Memphis Flyer titled; Bluff City Law: Here's How They Got to Memphis by Chris McCoy

A quote for the article reads: "By late February, Sitler was shuttling back and forth between meetings in Memphis and Nashville. She found an early ally in the Black Caucus, led by Representative G.A. Hardaway and State Senator Raumesh Akbari, who voted to make an $18-million incentive grant appropriation their top priority. "I give credit for this to my board chairman Gail Carson, who knows all of the members of the Black Caucus and they all trust her greatly," Sitler says."

Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes two of the top Black legislators from Memphis used their Black capitol to assist billion dollar Comcast to make the fictional NBC television series (The failed Bluff City Law) that promoted "White Supremacy" of fake White attorneys when it was Black attorneys like A.W. Willis Russell Sugarmon and others who actually fought for Civil rights. These Black legislators are on record of making an 18 million dollar grant for billion dollar Comcast their top priority. They along with Kevin Kane of Memphis tourism made White Tourism and White supremacy their top priority.

Unknown and untold in Memphis is the story of Black on Black racism whereas Black leaders like G.A. Hardaway, Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young, Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and many Black Memphis leaders Memphis leaders used their function and authority to erase the Black Memphis City of "Fort Pickering." Black leaders could call for the story of the Black city of 'Fort Pickering to be told as part of the "Black Memphis History."

Fort Pickering was a Black city that served as the epicenter of post-Civil War Black progress and tragedy. Founded in 1840 by John Christmas McLemore. Fort Pickering was geographically distinct from the city of Memphis. Its historical significance peaked following the Battle of Memphis in June 1862, when Union forces defeated the Confederates. As Klu Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest and his associates fled to Mississippi.

The Union military occupied the strategic bluffs of the river that was known a "Fort PIckering". Most Blacks in Memphis have no idea that the Black Memphis history of Fort Pickering ever existed. Black Memphis leaders allow the history of this Black Memphis city of "Fort Pickering" to remain unknown.

The unknown and untold and unwritten story of Memphis is to deny and not chronicle "Black Memphis History." Wednesday May 18, 2019 marked the 200th Anniversary of the "Bicentennial of Memphis."

Filmmaker and Memphis activist Anthony "Amp" Elmore followed a promotion in Memphis titled "Bring Your Soul." Anthony "Amp" Elmore a filmmaker decided to create a film titled "200 years of Black Memphis History." This film would be the 1st Time in Memphis History Black Memphis History would be chronicled.

Unknown and untold in Memphis it was Black Memphis Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris who used his function and authority to insure that "Black Memphis History" goes unknown and untold and he made sure Whites would not associate him with unfiltered "Black Memphis History" as told by Anthony "Amp" Elmore.

Shelby County Film Commission, Indie Memphis and Memphis in May celebrated Memphis Cinema whereas they used their function and authority to exclude Anthony "Amp" Elmore from Memphis film History. Elmore who wrote produced and directed Memphis 1st Independent 35mm Theatrical film "The Contemporary Gladiator" in 1988 whereas Memphis Shelby County Film Commissioner Linn Sitler used her function and authority to erase Black Memphis History whereas Anthony "Amp" Elmore's film history is a "Black Heritage Asset" whereas the White Woman Linn Sitler used her Function and Authority to not only erased some Black Memphis history she created her own Black heroes.

The White woman Linn Sitler put the Black Shelby County employee Alonzo Woods name on a historian marker whereas Blacks who dedicated their lives to building Memphis whereas the woman Linn Sitler controls a segment of Black history and art in Memphis.

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The background description of this video reads: " 2,442 views Premiered Apr 20, 2025 "The Hallmark of Memphis Black Leaders is White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism. Anthony "Amp" Elmore is Memphis born 5-Time World Karate/Kickboxing Champion, Community activist, Filmmaker and Black Memphis History Curator. Elmore is fighting Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism.

Elmore produced this video seeking to get "A Breakthrough." In Memphis there exist a culture of White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism whereas it is next to impossible for Blacks to get a "Breakthrough in Memphis" whereas Memphis is the most populated majority city of Blacks in America whereas Memphis does not have a "Chronicled Black Memphis History" or a "Black Memphis History Museum."

Memphis face the worst of worst White Supremacy and Racism. While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis April 4, 1968 Memphis racism has metastasized in a sophisticated 21th Century like cancer called "Black on Black Racism" which is the most difficult cancer or racism to challenge and defeat. In Memphis the hallmark of Racism is "Black on Black Racism" whereas Anthony "Amp" Elmore filmmaker use his filmmaking to reveal Memphis Black on Black Racism.

Memphis has two Black Mayors, A majority Black Memphis City Council, Majority Black Shelby County Commissioners, Majority Black Shelby County School Board however Memphis not only lacks a "Black Memphis History Museum" there exists in Memphis a disdain for Black Memphis History whereas there is outright discrimination against Black Films and Black Filmmakers. Black filmmaking is is a multi-Billion dollars Industry whereas the filmmaking culture is controlled by White Memphis film commissioner Linn Sitler who promotes only White films and White filmakers.

In 2019 Anthony "Amp" Elmore inadvertently produced the film "200 Years of Black Memphis History." Elmore's intent was to premier the film as an official part of the 200th Bicentennial Celebration in Memphis. Memphis birth was May 22, 1819.

The Memphis historic cultural celebration called "Memphis in May" instead of honoring a Foreign Country the group honored Memphis whereas "Memphis in May" along with the Memphis Shelby County Film Commission and "Indie Memphis" a film arts program honored Memphis Cinema.

Elmore who is Memphis 1st Independent 35mm Theatrical Filmmaker whose film history was extricated from the annuals of Memphis history the Memphis Shelby County Film Commission extricated Elmore's 1988 Film release "The Contemporary Gladiator" from the event and the commission would not allow Elmore's Film "200 Years of Black Memphis History" to be an official Part of the Bicentennial Celebration.

Elmore who voted for Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris was shocked to learn that Black Shelby County Mayor Harris outright discriminated against his association with the Bicentennial celebration and Elmore being associated with his office.

In order to fight Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris Black racist snub regarding Anthony "Amp' Elmore's Film "200 years of Black Memphis History, Elmore Rented the Malco Theatre on May 22, 2019 to premier the movie "200 years of Black Memphis History." Concurrently Anthony "Amp" Elmore released the movie on "You Tube" to document the record. Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris allowed Anthony "Amp" Elmore and his film "200 Years of Black Memphis History," Anthony "Amp" Elmore rented the Malco Majestic theatre and premiered the movie on You Tube" May 22, 2019 to create a forensic record of 2019 Memphis 200th anniversary is documented as a historical event not to be ignored.

Click here to see the movie "200 Years of Black Memphis History."

Anthony "Amp" Elmore fought the racism and discrimination of Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris via releasing the film on You Tube May 22, 2019 the exact 200th birthdate of Memphis. You Tube chronicled the date.

Anthony "Amp" ELMORE (The Father of Black Buddhism) used a Buddhist practice called in Japanese; "Hendoku Iyaku" which translate "Change poison into medicine." Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes that the Memphis Black leadership refused to include him and his work in the Bicentennial Celebration Anthony "Amp" Elmore decided to segment to movie into short film clips called "Profiles of Black Memphis History."

This lead Anthony "Amp" Elmore to creating "Memphis 1st Black Memphis History Museum" whereas Anthony "Amp" Elmore is "The Father of Black Memphis History." There exist no Black Memphis leader who has the courage to recognize the work of Anthony "Amp" Elmore and his creation of Memphis 1st digital Black Memphis history digital museum and website.

While no Black Memphis leader will acknowledge the work of Anthony "Amp" Elmore it has been White Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen who supported Anthony "Amp" Elmore when Black Memphis Mayor Dr. W.W. Herenton turned his back on Black Memphis history and Black people.

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It was December of 2025 whereas "NARA" (National Archives and Records Administration) posted the African Mud Cloth Tuxedo Anthony "Amp" Elmore created from President Obama's 2009 inauguration. President Obama promised Anthony "Amp" Elmore that the African Tuxedo would be placed in the Barack Obama Presidential library. Whereas such an act makes Anthony "Amp" Elmore a "NARA Historian."

On December 18, 2025 Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen took to the floor Congress and acknowledged Anthony "Amp" Elmore's work as a Filmmaker and cultural diplomat in the Permanente Congressional Records. Anthony "Amp" Elmore is using his status as a NARA honored historian to challenge Memphis Mayor White Supremacist sign that erased the true history of Orange Mound's birth is 1879 and not 1890, whereas Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young betrays Black America using the racist White supremacist 1890 date as the year Orange Mound was established.

Click here to see video titled: NARA Historian Anthony Amp Elmore Honored on Floor of Congress Corrects Orange Mound Birthdate 1879

Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris while not supporting Elmore's films to be an official part of the celebration Mayor Harris gave Elmore a tweet.

In addition of Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris not supporting and not wanting to be associated to Black Memphis History Anthony "Amp" Elmore not being a part of the Bicentennial Celebration Anthony "Amp" Elmore video tells the story of African Dignitaries also coming to Memphis whereas Shelby Country Mayor Lee Harris also did not want to be associated with African dignitaries whereas while he could have giving them an escort and visit the Shelby County Mayor's office. Mayor Harris was outright racist and ducked out and wanted no association with honoring the African leaders.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland took a photo in his office with the African leaders, however Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris cut off communication. The group was welcomed at the office of Congressman Steve Cohen whereas Tracy Sow working with Elmore is the publicist for Blues Singer Bobby Rush. Tracy Sow arranged for the African dignitaries to meet Bobby Rush as Congressman's Cohen's office.

While Anthony "Amp" Elmore invited the African dignitaries to Memphis via a letter Elmore asked Mayor Lee Harris to write an invitation letter, Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris not wanting to be see with African leader "ducked out." Tennessee State Representative Joe Towns Jr. stepped in to accommodate the dignitaries. Representative Towns arranged for Mayor Harris to take a photo at St. Jude Hospital and Tennessee State Representative Joe Towns accommodated the dignitaries.

The African dignitaries were head by Governor Peter Anyang Nyong'o who is Governor of "Kisumu County" the third largest City in Kenya. Governor Nyong'o is the father of academy award winner Lupita Nyong'o who stars in the Black Panther Movie. Lee Harris disssed the Father of Black Panther movie.

Click here to see video titled: Kenyan Dignitaries Lead by Lupita Nyong'o Father Came to Memphis

In addition the video tells the story of Black Shelby County Mayor Harris providing a Forever Lease to the "Orange Mound Arts Council." The Lee Harris arrangement is an "Outright Con Job" that betrays the Community of "Orange Mound.

The "Orange Mound Arts Council" is a façade headed by Mary E. Mitchell who will turn 90 years old in August of 2026. White religious leader Don Gilbert who heads a 501 -3 C religious Organization in Orange Mound called "Kingdom Community Builders." Orange Mound has more Churches per density of the population has more Churches than anywhere in America.

White led non-profits have "Grant Readiness" whereas the White Man Don Gilbert has more and easy access to Black grant money that Black organizations. Don Gilbert and Mary E. Mitchell created a "Shame or a Figurehead Strategy." Via partnering with a beloved local Figurehead like Mary E. Mitchell the organization gained "Cultural Cover" whereas it makes it difficult to criticize a Black Elder who is outright running a "front and shame on Black Orange Mound."

To get a clear understanding how Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young, The Orange Mound's Arts Council is running a fraud and sham on Black Memphis.

Click here to view an August 20, 2025 video titled: Memphis White Supremacy & Black Card! Leaders use Old Black Woman Mary Mitchell to exploit Blacks

Anthony "Amp" Elmore in this video shows how Don Gilbert a White used his influence to organize the "Orange Mound Arts Council" whereas Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris could benefit from a political arrangement. Mary E. Mitchell was able to gain a home whereas she represented a conservative voice of "Orange Mound" whereas she made great politics whereas she became the happy face of Orange Mound. Mary E. Mitchell promoted the "John Deaderick Plantation Narrative" whereas she used her status to connect Orange Mound to the plantation and erase the correct history of Orange Mound connected to the two Black Churches "Mt Moriah Baptist Church and MT Pisgah CME whereas both were founded in 1879.

Elmore challenged the Mary E. Mitchel racist narratives of Orange Mound whereas Elmore created "The Orange Mound News Network" to show a positive narrative regarding Orange Mound. Anthony "Amp" Elmore is fighting Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism whereas Elmore is fighting to correct the history of Orange Mound.

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Click here Elmore created the website "Black Memphis History. com ".

In order to get a clear view of Memphis Shelby County Film Commissioner Linn Sitler, Tennessee State Representative G.A. Hardaway, Tennessee State Senator Raumesh Akbari, Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and Memphis Tourism Kevin Kane's White supremacy. Please the video below titled:

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In regards to Memphis, Tennessee life is tantamount to days of slavery whereas the Black Mayor and Black elected officials have no "Say so in Memphis" watch and share the above video.
Following President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, the city of "Fort Pickering" became a beacon for "contraband" (formerly enslaved people) who sought protection and the opportunity to serve in the United States Colored Troops (USCT).

The influx of Black soldiers and their families transformed Fort Pickering from a small settlement into a bustling city of approximately 22,000 residents, eclipsing the population of Memphis at the time. This made "Fort Pickering" the first majority-Black city in the post-Civil War South. Though the land was not legally owned by the Black residents, "Fort Pickering" functioned as a thriving, self-contained community with its own schools, businesses, and churches. This era of Black self-determination stood in stark contrast to the neighboring city of Memphis, which remained a bastion of Confederate sentiment and racial animosity.

The prosperity of Fort Pickering was met with a violent backlash in May of 1866. What began as a confrontation between Black Union soldiers and Irish police officers—who were often former Confederate sympathizers—escalated into a targeted massacre? White mobs, supported by Memphis officials, descended upon the Black city of Fort Pickering.

Over three days, they engaged in a campaign of murder, rape, and the systematic destruction of Black homes, churches, and businesses. While history books often label this as the "Memphis Massacre," it was specifically an assault on the success and autonomy of the Black city of "Fort Pickering."

The Memphis Massacre of 1866 resulted in a concentrated campaign of arson and murder that leveled the community surrounding Fort Pickering. In just three days, white mobs murdered 46 Black residents and destroyed the entire educational infrastructure of the area by burning all 12 Black schools. The destruction extended to the community's spiritual and domestic foundations, with 4 churches and approximately 90 homes burned to the ground.

This systematic violence left hundreds homeless and caused over $100,000 in property damage, effectively turning the refugee camps and neighborhoods into a charred wasteland to suppress Black Hera post-war progress.

The brutality of the 1866 massacre was so extreme that it forced a federal response. A Congressional investigation into the events at Fort Pickering provided the moral and legal impetus for the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing equal protection and citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States. Despite this monumental contribution to American law, the city of Memphis executed a violent annexation of Fort Pickering in 1871, effectively absorbing the land and actively erasing its Black Memphis history from the public record.

This erasure created a historical vacuum where the story of Fort Pickering was replaced by narratives that marginalized Black achievement. The site of this early struggle for civil rights is located just a "rock's throw" from where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be assassinated nearly 100 years later.

The pattern of displacement and history-stripping that began with Fort Pickering eventually led to the development of Black communities like Orange Mound in 1879 and New Chicago in 1901.

Today, the continued silence regarding Fort Pickering serves as evidence of a culture—maintained by both Black and White institutions—that ignores the foundational role this Black city played in the birth of American civil rights.

NARA Historian Anthony "Amp" Elmore is the "Father of Black Memphis history" whereas Anthony "Amp" is the 1st and only person to chronicle "Black Memphis History" and who has the courage to acknowledge "Black Memphis history.

In the city of Memphis there is a plan, strategy and an unwritten agreement to attenuate "Black Agency" and continue the Memphis practice and pattern to promote White Supremacy and enhance "Black on Black Racism" via the erasure of the Black City of Fort Pickering and the erasure of the Black Memphis Community of Orange Mound.

White supremacy, racism and Black and Black on Black begins at the top via Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young. Let us be clear; the Paul Young sign that reads "Orange Mound Established in 1890 is an institutional Betrayal of Black Agency and a rewrite and erasure of Black Memphis History.

The systemic framework of Memphis reveals a profound commodification of history, where the "official Black Narrative" is curated by institutions such as Memphis Tourism to prioritize White marketability over Black grassroots empowerment. This dynamic suggests that the city's policy and culture are shaped by a lens of white supremacy, where the economic benefits of Black culture—including music, civil rights, and labor—flow primarily to white-led institutions and downtown developers.

In simple terms ask why Memphis has a "Cotton Museum" and not Black Memphis history Museum whereas the city invested over 300 million dollars in the area of Liberty Park fairgrounds area whereas Black Memphis Mayor provides Orange Mound with a White Supremacist sign that falsely credits the White man for E.E. Meacham for Founding Orange Mound.

The Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Racism and Black economic disparity is codified by White Kevin kane who operates 'Memphis Tourism who shaped the unfair White Supremacist narrative of Memphis Tourism to "Attenuate Black Agency" and shape the culture and narrative of Memphis to benefit Whites and neutralize Black history and empowerment.

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By Kevin Kane framing landmarks like Beale Street, the National Civil Rights Museum, and the Stax Museum as components of a White economic tourism-driven brand, the city effectively sanitizes the historical reality of Black agency. The stark contrast between the existence of a Cotton Museum, which centers the economic "glory" of an industry built on enslaved and exploited labor, and the absence of a comprehensive, independently managed Black Memphis History Museum, serves as a physical manifestation of these skewed institutional priorities.

Furthermore, this control over the historical narrative dictates the flow of economic resources, often with the cooperation of Black leadership in what can be characterized as a manifestation of Black-on-Black racism.

This occurs when local leaders implement and validate narratives approved by the white establishment—such as the 1890 founding date for Orange Mound—rather than defending the 1879 origins rooted in Black self-determination and independent church institutions.

By anchoring the community's birth to a white real estate developer like E.E. Meacham, the city's leadership participates in a "Jedi mind trick" that erases a decade of autonomous Black struggle. This institutional complacency ensures that the economics of Memphis continue to benefit the status quo, effectively using curated history as a tool of social and financial control that undermines the true legacy of Black pioneers.

In regards to "Black on Black Racism" and White Supremacy one has to look no further than December 7, 2025 whereas as Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young installed a sign that reads "Orange Mound established in 1890 is a betrayal to Black America and a nod to White Supremacy and an erasure of Black Memphis history.

The planned strategy, culture and practice in Memphis is its erasure of Black Memphis history whereas African Americans whom are silent are rewarded. In regards to betrayal and White Supremacy in Memphis one has to look no further than Kevin kane and Memphis Tourism whereas Memphis tourism is based on "White Supremacy" whereas there no coincidence that Memphis has a "Cotton Museum and no Black Memphis History Museum."

Based on 2022 U.S. Census Bureau estimates released in May 2023, Memphis, TN, replaced Detroit as the nation's largest majority-Black City in America whereas Memphis in its practice and pattern erase "Black Memphis History."

Anthony "Amp" Elmore presents emphatic, empirical, and absolute evidence that the Whiteman E.E. Meacham did not build, start or create the Memphis African/American community of "Orange Mound."

Further Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes that Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young, Black Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, anthropologist Dr. Chares Williams, Mary E. Mitchell, The Commercial Appeal News Paper, Tennessee Historical commission, PBS Television and both Black and White leaders and others use their function and authority to mislead and Bamboozle Orange Mound out of its Black Memphis History and "Black Cultural Empowerment."

Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes that the issue or the Whiteman E.E. Meacham founding Orange Mound in 1890 is "Axiomatic." All one has to do is look at the 1890 E.E. Meacham plans for Orange Mound whereas he documented an impossibility on paper to put 981 houses of 64 acres of land is mathematically impossible.

Memphis pundits teach a narrative that a Whiteman can defy physics and math and create a miracle. On November 24, 2024 anthropologist Dr. Charles Williams stood at the Orange Mound Library presented the E.E. Meacham 1890 plans and presented to people a mathematical impossibility.

The historical erasure of Black Memphis is exemplified by the suppression of the history of Fort Pickering, an incorporated city established by John Christmas McLemore in 1840. This community represents a pinnacle of Black success and self-determination that was systematically dismantled and eventually omitted from the city's official narrative.

The City of Memphis via its White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism erased the name and history of the entire Black City of "Fort Pickering" out of Memphis History. There is hardly anyone who knows this hidden Black Memphis History.

Following the Battle of Memphis in 1862, Fort Pickering became a sanctuary for former slaves, with the Black population surging from 4,000 to 22,000 by the end of the Civil War. This thriving metropolis featured its own schools, churches, and homes, including the Lemoyne Normal Institute, which later became LeMoyne-Owen College. However, this success was met with violent white opposition.

The Memphis Massacre of 1866 In a brutal act of domestic terrorism, mobs of whites and Irish policemen invaded Fort Pickering, burning down 46 homes, four schools, and multiple churches.
Targeted Violence: During the massacre, prominent Black leader Robert R. Church was shot in the head, and the entire community was leveled.

The 14th Amendment: The violence in Fort Pickering was so egregious that it served as a primary catalyst for Congress to pass the 14th Amendment.

Violent Annexation: By 1871, after the community had begun to recover, the City of Memphis annexed Fort Pickering through a "violent annexation," effectively silencing its history as one of the most successful Black communities in American history.

The "Jedi Mind Trick" and the Meacham Myth;

This pattern of erasure continues today through what is described as a "Jedi mind trick"—the promotion of white real estate developer E.E. Meacham as the "founder" of Orange Mound in 1890. This narrative, supported by current figures such as Mayor Paul Young Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, Mary E. Mitchell and Dr. Charles Williams, relies on a mathematical impossibility.

Meacham's plans to fit 981 houses on just 64 acres would have required nearly 1,000 outhouses and wells in an era without a sanitary sewer system, creating a logistical and public health disaster. This "paper miracle" is used to "bamboozle" the public and obscure the true birth of Orange Mound in 1879, founded by the pioneers of Mount Moriah Baptist Church and Mount Pisgah CME Church.

Institutional Complicity and Betrayal:
The Black Memphis Mayor Paul Young erasure is reinforced by institutional complicity across media and academia. Filmmaker Jay Killingworth's 2013 PBS documentary, A Community Called Orange Mound, is criticized for using staged "stock photographs" of shotgun houses with modern architectural features to create a false image of the neighborhood's origins.

Furthermore, local leaders are practicing "Black-on-Black racism" by using elderly figures like Mary E. Mitchell to front white-run organizations like the Orange Mound Arts Council, which continues to promote the 1890 "White Founder" date. It was the "Orange Mound Arts Council on December 7, 2025 who unveiled the racist sign noting 1890 as the Birthday of Orange Mound and not the correct date of 189.

By Memphis Black Leaders omitting the 1958 KKK bombing of Mount Moriah Baptist Church and Dr. King's 1959 visit to to the church to rally for the "Volunteer Ticket," the city replaces a history of radical Black political power with a sanitized story of white development. This systemic silence regarding Fort Pickering and the true 1879 origins of Orange Mound remains a profound betrayal of the legacy of Black self-determination in Memphis.

Click here to view this video titled; New Orange Mound Sign Racist: Truth Revealed by Anthony "Amp" Elmore

In the video "New Orange Mound Sign Racist: Truth Revealed by Anthony 'Amp' Elmore," filmmaker and historian Anthony Elmore presents a critical examination of the historical narrative surrounding the Orange Mound community in Memphis, Tennessee.

Elmore's central thesis is that the recently installed gateway sign, which lists the community's founding date as 1890, is a manifestation of institutional racism and a "historical lie". Anthony "Amp" Elmore argues that this date credits white real estate developer E.E. Meacham for the neighborhood's creation, thereby erasing the agency of the Black pioneers who he asserts actually founded the community over a decade earlier.

Elmore provides a counter-chronology, stating that the true foundation of Orange Mound began in 1879 with the emergence of two Black churches: Mount Mariah Baptist Church and Mount Pisgah CME Church. He points to the 1883 land purchase by Mount Mariah and the 1890 construction of the first county school for Black students—located directly behind the church—as physical evidence of an established Black community prior to Meacham's involvement.

Click here to see the video titled: MT Moriah & MT Pisgah Churches Unmasking True Black Founders Orange Mound Community in Memphis 1879

Anthony "Amp" Elmore notes clear-cut evidence of the Betrayal and silence of Black Memphis leaders. For the record Anthony "Amp" Elmore ask the reader to view Furthermore, Elmore challenges the mathematical feasibility of Meacham's purported 981-plot development on just 64 acres, labeling the narrative a "Jedi mind trick" designed to credit white supremacy for Black success.

The video concludes with a formal challenge to Memphis Mayor Paul Young, whose "Accelerate Memphis" initiative funded the sign. Elmore characterizes the sign as "historical treason" and "Black-on-Black racism" for its failure to honor the 1879 founders.

Historian Anthony "Amp" Elmore reveals that the sign has been added as evidence in his federal lawsuit against the City of Memphis and calls for the intervention of UNESCO to address what he describes as a cultural and historical crime. Elmore demands the removal of the racist 1890 sign date to accurately reflect the 1879 founding by the Black community of Orange Mound.

Memphis the city Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was brutally assassinated on April 4, 1968. Today in Memphis there exists a culture of "White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism" whereas both Blacks and Whites joined together to erase "Black Agency" to subordinate, hide and obscure "Black Memphis history and Black agency."

Click here to view the story of STAX and note how the City of Memphis used if function and authority to destroy what would have been a "Multi-Billion dollar Black Business."

The story of Stax Records, as presented by historian Anthony "Amp" Elmore, is a narrative of both immense cultural achievement and a systematic dismantling of what could have become a multi-billion dollar global black business. While mainstream history often highlights Stax as a symbol of racial harmony in the 1960s, Elmore provides an unfiltered dimension, arguing that the company's eventual downfall was not merely a result of bad business, but a targeted assassination of black economic agency.

Anthony "Amp" Elmore details how the city of Memphis power structures and institutional racism worked to neutralize Al Bell, the visionary leader who transformed Stax into "Soulsville USA." Under Black leader Al Bell's guidance, Stax grew into one of the nation's largest black-owned companies, achieving unprecedented milestones like the Wattstax concert in 1972, which signaled a level of black economic and cultural power that proved threatening to the white establishment of the era.

According to this historical perspective, the "Crump Rule" in Memphis—a legacy of political boss E.H. Crump—dictated that black wealth was only permitted if it did not challenge white business interests or social hierarchies. Elmore posits that Stax violated these unwritten rules when it expanded into the movie industry and its stars, like Isaac Hayes, began attaining wealth that equaled or surpassed that of the white elite.

The narrative describes a coordinated effort involving the IRS, banking institutions, and the legal system to cripple the company through involuntary bankruptcy and trumped-up charges of bank fraud. Ultimately, the destruction of Stax is framed as a cautionary tale of how institutional authority was used to ensure that black economic development stayed "in its lane," preventing the rise of a powerhouse that could have fundamentally altered the economic landscape for Black Memphis.

There exists a culture and practice in Memphis whereas "Black Memphis history remain obscure." The one thing that is never discussed in Memphis is "Black Memphis History" must be approved and authorized by the White Memphis establishment headed by Kevin Kane of Memphis tourism.

It was December 7, 2025 whereas a "White Approved Sign" was installed at the corner of Park Avenue and Airways that notes "Orange Mound was established in 1890." This sign is part of the comprehensive plan supported by both "Blacks and Whites to erase Black Memphis 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.

Our Journey and Mission
Orange Mound, established as the first community in America built for Blacks y Blacks, has a rich history often overshadowed by negative stereotypes. Mainstream media and societal biases have painted Orange Mound as a "ghetto," contributing to a 30% decline in property values while surrounding communities have prospered. The Orange Mound News Network was created to
counter this narrative and highlight the true spirit and resilience of our community.

Anthony Amp Elmore, a five-time world karate kickboxing champion, filmmaker, and community activist, has been a beacon of change in Orange Mound. With over five decades of community service, Elmore has dedicated his life to uplifting Orange Mound. From becoming a homeowner at 19, establishing businesses, to founding the Proud Black Buddhist World Association, Elmore's contributions have been immense.

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