Memphis 68

Second in the award-winning soul music trilogy following Detroit 67 —featuring Memphis artists Isaac Hayes, Mahalia Jackson, Otis Redding, and others.   In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launchpad for musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green, and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968, it was a city synonymous with soul music. It was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease with the modern world and yet to adjust to the era of civil rights and racial i