Talk:Whitehaven, Memphis

this article needs better organization, and needs to be "wikipediafied"

Changed average snowfall from "less than 2 inches per year" to 5.2 inches per year which is fact based on the NWS-Memphis 30-year climo average. I have no idea where such an errant fact originally came from.

Hello My name is John Guinozzo. I wrote a book called "On Whitehaven" It is about athletics and history of Whitehaven. I have Whitehaven School opening in 1843.

If you will tell me where to send history info (dates, etc.) regarding Whitehaven, I will send them to you. Thanks.

Racist Remark

This sentence needs to be edited, the remarks of it are racist:

Integration of the City schools by an African-American female named Maxine Smith, and the "flight" of white citizens to northern Mississippi and the eastern suburbs of Memphis during the 1970s and 1980s due to enormous crimewaves of marauding Negroes into Whitehaven changed Whitehaven to an area largely populated by Negro citizens.

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As a Whitehaven resident: I disagree with the statement in the article that Whitehaven was developed as a "whites only" community. I am white and I was raised here from birth (1950) and we always had neighbors of color. Our closest neighbors that were not our relatives were Black; directly across the street. My family has lived here since 1884 (on the same land since 1890) to the present 2008; and although most of the early residents that had "money" were white, there have always been many others who were of African descent. The book "Tales of Old Whitehaven" by Anna Leigh McCorkle even has a whole chapter debvoted to information on the Black citizens of Whitehaven. Prior to official integration of the schools there was a Black High School (Geeter). In the 1960's when integration became the law, there was a lot of "white flight" to other areas of the city and county, but the new Black arrivals were not the first Blacks here, perhaps just the first Blacks to live here with professional careers and substantial incomes.

I would also have to object to the word "marauding" above. In my 58 years here I never saw any such thing.

I have just read your comments on Whitehaven and your reference to Anna Leigh McCorkle's book " Tales of Old Whitehaven ". This book, written by my aunt, has been out for many years. We have just finished the latest reprint which features a detailed index. Proceeds for the sale of the book will be dedicated for maintenance of the historic Edmondson cemetery. Thanks for your article

Frred W. Bailey, Shreveport, La —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.155.228.24 (talk) 22:12, 20 February 2009 (UTC)