G. Wayne Dowdy

G. Wayne Dowdy holds a Master's Degree in history from the University of Arkansas and is a certified archives manager He is the author of Mayor Crump don't like it: Machine Politics in Memphis; Hidden History of Memphis; Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South, a Brief History of Memphis, On This Day in Memphis History and Scouting in Memphis: a History of the Chickasaw Council, BSA, and Everyone Shapes History. Dowdy has served as a researcher for the NBC-TV series who do you think you are?, the PBS series History Detectives: Special Investigation and the HBO/Cinemax series Quarry. The host of the WYPL-TV program the Memphis Room, Dowdy has appeared on C-Span, NOS Dutch Public Radio and the documentaries Overton Park: a Century of Change, Memphis memoirs: Downtown and Citizens not Subjects: Reawakening Democracy in Memphis. In 2015 he was awarded the Tennessee Historical Commission's Certificate of Merit for his book On This Day in Memphis History. He is an Eagle Scout who served eight summers on the staff of Kia Kima Scout Reservation.