Sara Roberta Church 1914-1995

Sara Roberta Church 1914-1995 is a Tennessee historical marker in Shelby County.

Shelby Co., Church Park in Memphis 1914-1995 Tennessee on Beale St., East of Fourth St.

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In 1952, Roberta Church became the first black woman in Memphis to be elected to public office and to the Tennessee Republican State Executive Committee. She served as an official in the administrations of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon. In 1987, Church was the first woman and the first Black named Senior Citizen of the Year by the Kiwanis Club of Memphis. The daughter of Republican leader Robert R. Church, Jr., and the granddaughter of Robert R. Church, Sr., her death ended three generations of Churches who were economically, politically and socially active in Memphis.

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1901 · Memphis. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1909 · Arkansas. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1925 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1939 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1965 · Northwest Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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