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Carnival salutes various aspects of memphis and its industries and is reigned over by the current year s secretly selected king queen and royal court of carnival.
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As more and more influential memphians became actively interested memphi and the memphis cotton carnival association were established in the early 1930 s.
The two events reflected the segregated society of memphis and the south prior to the 1970s.
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Carnival memphis formerly known as the memphis cotton carnival is a series of parties and festivities staged annually since 1931 in memphis tennessee by the centralized carnival memphis association and its member krewes similar to that of mardi gras during the month of june.
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The efforts were conducted to bring a sense of excitement.
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In 1931 memphis like the rest of the country was suffering through the great depression.
Many were out of work and the primary asset of the region cotton was selling for pennies a pound.
The memphis cotton carnival is born during the early twentieth century great interest developed in creating a city wide event like carnival and re establishing the mystic memphi.
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The cotton carnival came about as an event to publicize the economic heart of memphis cotton.
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Mid south prosperity had always depended on cotton and measures were needed to increase the use of this precious commodity.
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At the same time the memphis chamber of commerce was having trouble raising money.
It worked as people began to demand more cotton products from socks to ball gowns and the rest as they say is history.
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The initial mission was to have mischievous fun with the memphis cotton carnival elite crash their parties and make memphis cotton carnival a little more colorful experience much like real life boll weevils creating mayhem on cotton crops.
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During the depression a group of memphis businessmen formed the first cotton carnival to promote the use and wearing of cotton products which would in turn lead to increased demand and stimulate sales.
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