Churchgoing: Bellevue Baptist Church near Memphis. (Memphis, Tennessee)

The Christian Century | May 5, 1993| | Copyright

Within a couple of hours of arriving in Memphis I learned that there are really two cities here along the Mississippi. In East Memphis, smooth macadam roads bearing names like Shady Grove and Cherry Lane wind through suburban neighborhoods lined with brick, ersatz colonial homes. On a warm summer evening the smell of lighter fluid and burning charcoal mixes pleasantly with the sound of cicadas.

Just a few miles away inner-city Memphis struggles to survive, and the contortions of that struggle are all too obvious. Desegregation prompted white flight to the suburbs in ...

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