901 Day grows into a Memphis ‘homecoming’ as observance expands beyond Sept. 1

DeMarcus Suggs knew this day would come.

For two years, the calendar had been kind to Memphis’ 901 Day, landing Sept. 1 on either a weekend or the Labor Day holiday.

Not this year. Sept. 1 falls on a Tuesday, smack in the middle of a work and school week. After an estimated 29,000 people packed Beale Street for last year’s celebration, squeezing all that Memphis pride into a Tuesday evening wasn’t particularly practical…

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