Memphis Tn Celebrations

The vanguard of America's struggle for equal rights in the 1950s and 1960s will gather this week to dedicate a National Civil Rights Museum at the Memphis, Tenn., motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was slain. The five-day celebration will attract speakers as diverse in their civil rights approaches as Rosa Parks, whose arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger set off a bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955, and H.

Elvis Presley fans flooded Memphis by the tens of thousands Friday on the eve of the 20th anniversary of his death. Some had begun standing in line 24 hours in advance of a candlelight vigil expected to last until daybreak today, eager to be among the first to pass through the gates of the entertainer's home for a solemn, single-file walk past his grave. Elvis was 42 when an ambulance crew found him dead of a drug-induced heart attack at 3764 Elvis Presley Blvd.

Leaders of about 40 Elvis Presley fan clubs gathered on the lawn of the singer's former residence Monday to eat pink and white cake and sing "Happy Birthday" to their hero, dead now for 12 years. Presley would have been 55.

The man loitering along the stone wall says he'd recently been in a mental hospital, and no one doubts his word. Before the doctors cured him, he believed himself to be Elvis Presley. Now, he merely wishes that he was. The wish is written all over his face, not to mention his back and shoulders.

Elvis Presley fans flooded Memphis by the tens of thousands Friday on the eve of the 20th anniversary of his death. Some had begun standing in line 24 hours in advance of a candlelight vigil expected to last until daybreak today, eager to be among the first to pass through the gates of the entertainer's home for a solemn, single-file walk past his grave. Elvis was 42 when an ambulance crew found him dead of a drug-induced heart attack at 3764 Elvis Presley Blvd.

The man loitering along the stone wall says he'd recently been in a mental hospital, and no one doubts his word. Before the doctors cured him, he believed himself to be Elvis Presley. Now, he merely wishes that he was. The wish is written all over his face, not to mention his back and shoulders.

The vanguard of America's struggle for equal rights in the 1950s and 1960s will gather this week to dedicate a National Civil Rights Museum at the Memphis, Tenn., motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was slain. The five-day celebration will attract speakers as diverse in their civil rights approaches as Rosa Parks, whose arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger set off a bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955, and H.

Leaders of about 40 Elvis Presley fan clubs gathered on the lawn of the singer's former residence Monday to eat pink and white cake and sing "Happy Birthday" to their hero, dead now for 12 years. Presley would have been 55.