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Named after the ancient capital of Egypt, Memphis, Tennessee is today the second largest city in the Southeast and one of the largest cities in the United States. Founded in 1820, Memphis grew primarily as a result of cotton and slave trading and was contested by the Union and Confederacy during the "Battle of Memphis" in 1862. Despite the ravishing effects of war and fever, Memphis survived as a city and by the 1950's hosted the world's largest cotton and hard wood lumber market. Memphis would later become a political and civil hot spot, as the home of the controversial political machine of E.H "Boss" Crump and the location of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King. Jr. Known as an icon of American Southern culture, Memphis has been ground zero for many Southern American culture movements, including many strains of Blues, Jazz, Soul, Country, Rock, R&B and Rap and world renowned for unique styles of Barbeque.

Today, Memphis is a thriving metropolitan region which headquarters several national corporations including FedEx, AutoZone and International Paper. The city has been rated in several business publications as a model of economic development and corporate diversity with its burgeoning high tech sector being noted. Memphis still reigns as a cultural epicenter. Artists ranging from Tennessee Williams, to Elvis Presley, to B.B King, to Justin Timberlake, have made their first starts in Memphis. Memphis offers a wide variety of events, activities and venues for locals and visitors. The National Civil Rights Museum is hosted in the very hotel where Martin Luther King was shot and is one of the countries most prominent testimonies to the American Civil Rights movement. Former home and current resting place of Elvis Presley, Graceland, is located in Memphis and is a national historic landmark. Blues fans from all over the world flock to Memphis' Beale Street, artistic home of B.B King, and the second busiest street in the South next to New Orleans's Bourbon Street. Aside from offering nature, amusement and water parks, Memphis is also a nexus for motor sports and professional wrestling. Memphis Motorsports Park hosts several NASCAR races and Memphis' downtown Cook Convention Center has helped debut professional wrestling's greatest stars from Hulk Hogan, to Randy "Machoman" Savage to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

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