City Council chairman Myron Lowery suggested Wednesday to a reporter that LeMoyne-Owen College should set up a room to house the materials Mayor Willie Herenton has collected during his historic tenure as the city's first elected black mayor and first black superintendent of Memphis City Schools.
We're hearing now that Herenton may donate many of the materials he has been moving out of his seventh-floor office to LeMoyne-Owen, the mayor's alma mater and the city's only historically black college.
Herenton's staff has talked with City Housing and Community director Robert Lipscomb, one of Herenton's closest aides who also serves as board chairman of LeMoyne-Owen, about the matter and an announcement could be made this afternoon.
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