MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hyde Park Matters brought together elderly members of the neighborhood's community for a celebration of life and car parade on Saturday.
"They paved the way for us to be able to live in this community and most of these folks have lived here for decades," Fred Robinson, a member of Hyde Park Matters, said.
Melvin Lee, a pastor at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, estimated the Hyde Park neighborhood to be more than 100 years old.
"Hyde Park is a self-sufficient neighborhood .... Today, we have some issues, but in concert with the city of Memphis, we're trying to work many of them out," Robinson added. "We thought we needed to accentuate the positive, and that's why we're doing it."