At a press conference this past Friday, May 16th, at the Stax Museum, representatives from the Soulsville Foundation and AT&T unveiled the new 2008-2009 AT&T Real White Pages phone directory with a photo of the museum on the front cover. This is part of a new partnership between the Soulsville Foundation and AT&T, which includes a sponsorship of the museum's changing gallery and other opportunities. AT&T vice president of external affairs Bill Ray said in his comments that he had been in an integrated band in high school and was drawn to the Soulsville Foundation because of the rich Stax legacy of racial harmony, as well as the work the foundation is doing with at-risk children through the Stax Music Academy and The Soulsville Charter School, citing specifically the upcoming SMA Summer Soul Tour Presented By FedEx, which will take 16 students on a concert tour/cultural enrichment trip through Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra, Australia on June 22, 2008.
We at the museum are very grateful to AT&T for this collaboration and hope that with 580,000 copies of the directory soon delivered in Memphis, Germantown, Bartlett, Collierville, Arlington, Rosemark, West Memphis, and DeSoto County, the museum will get even more exposure and visitors. So the next time you look for a phone number, know that we have it covered!
Cover photo by Terry Sweeney of Sweeney Photography South.
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