CORRECTION

There were several errors in an article entitled “Ida B. Wells Museum considers long-term stability” that ran in issue 42, Oct. 17 issue of The South Reporter. Harold Thompson, of Nashville, was the Architect of Record for the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and the National Museum of African American Music which recently opened in Nashville. Thompson has agreed to assist the Architectural Programming an Preliminary Design and Development of the Ida B. Wells Museum project. Charles T. Miller said he had two architects committed to assist with the Design Work and that fund raising is still to be determined.

Miller clarified a statement he said that he observed human feces on the site at the Ida B. Wells Statue in Memphis. He said his statement was not meant to be critical of the sanitation department of Memphis, but to emphasize the futility of Memphis, Holly Springs or any city trying to maintain cleanliness of a remote public site on a day-by-day or hourly basis. His comment was a subtle plea for the statue committee to consider locating the proposed statue on the Ida B. Wells Campus instead of the intended site in the Park, he said.

“I can visualize the beautifully designed “hard-scape” where the statue would be placed as becoming one of the most sought after venues in the State of Mississippi,” he said.

The South Reporter apologizes for any inconvenience the errors may have caused our readers.