Billy Al Bengston knows that when it comes to art, presentation is crucial. So the 75-year-old artist and his agent, Samuel Freeman, decided to mark a milestone in Bengston’s career in an unusual way.

March 27, 1968 -- Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles (left) and Rev. James Lawson at a sanitation strike rally (Ken Ross, Courtesy Special Collections / University of Memphis Libraries) September 23, 2009 -- The ...

In early 1968, the Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles and another local minister beckoned the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, Tenn., to demonstrate support for a strike by 1,300 black city sanitation ...

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The first of two visitations for Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles will be held later today. A service will be held at the National Civil Rights Museum from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. A second visitation is ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Mid-South is remembering Civil Rights ...

Billy Samuel Foust, Sr, 66, of Foley, Alabama, passed away on October 18, 2022 after his battle with cancer. Billy was born in Memphis, TN and graduated from Fairley High School. He worked for FedEx ...

Information on the funeral services for the Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles has been released. Rev. Kyles, died at the age of 81, he was known as a leader and pioneer during the civil rights movement.