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- More than 580,000 Directories to be Distributed to Area Residents and Businesses MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Memphis' National Civil Rights Museum will be featured on the cover of the new edition of The Real White Pages from BellSouth (NYSE:BLS). More than 580,000 copies of the directory will be delivered to area homes and businesses beginning this month. "In selecting a feature image for the cover of Memphis' leading directory, BellSouth wanted to bring a Memphis landmark to the hundreds of thousands of users of The Real White Pages. Our very own National Civil Rights Museum is not just a lasting image, but a statement about the history Memphis has in the civil rights movement," said Bill Ray, Assistant Vice President for BellSouth's Memphis Operations. "This is an opportunity for the National Civil Rights Museum to gain exposure basically by becoming a part of the families and businesses who are valued customers of BellSouth. We are thrilled for BellSouth to recognize the important role of the Museum and to embrace our mission of educating and inspiring hundreds of thousands of people to continue in the quest for civil and human rights," said Beverly Robertson, President of the National Civil Rights Museum. In addition to Memphis, the Greater Memphis edition of The Real White Pages includes listings for Arlington, Bartlett, Collierville, Covington, Germantown, Millington, Moscow, Rosemark, Shelby Forest, Somerville, West Memphis and Marion, Arkansas, as well as Hernando, Byhalia and Olive Branch, Mississippi. In addition to area business and residential listings, The Real White Pages from BellSouth also includes local, state and federal government listings, as well as emergency and 911 guides. The Memphis edition is available on the Internet at http://www.realpageslive.com/. "Just as consumers' preference for how they locate local business information has changed, so has BellSouth's tools for finding information. From our print directory, to the Internet, consumers have a choice of how they 'let their fingers do the walking' when searching The Real White Pages," said Ray. YELLOWPAGES.COM(TM) from BellSouth is the Southeast's leading online yellow pages. With more than 3.8 million annual searches for Memphis area businesses, the YELLOWPAGES.COM network, including Yahoo! Yellow Pages, AOL Yellow Pages and Switchboard.com, is another way BellSouth connects savvy business people to consumers looking to make a purchase. Information is available at http://www.yellowpages.com/. To view The Real White Pages Memphis Directory cover, please copy and paste the following web address to your browser: http://bellsouth.mediaroom.com/file.php/mr_bellsouth/spinsite_docfiles/321/Mem phisTNWP.pdf About BellSouth Advertising and Publishing BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corporation (BAPCO) is the leading provider of print and Internet Yellow Pages products in the southeast. BAPCO publishes 68 million copies of the print Yellow Pages in more than 500 editions in the nine-state BellSouth region. Users referred to The Real Yellow Pages(R) from BellSouth nearly 2 billion times in 2004 and approximately 90 million monthly searches on the YELLOWPAGES.COM network (http://www.yellowpages.com/). The Real Yellow Pages is a powerful information resource, linking buyers and sellers, with approximately 85 percent of consumers who reference the directories' most frequently used headings making a purchase based on their findings. About the National Civil Rights Museum The National Civil Rights Museum, located at the Lorraine Motel, site of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., chronicles the key episodes of the American civil rights movement and the legacy of this movement to inspire participation in civil and human rights efforts globally, through our collections, exhibitions and educational programs. The Museum opened in 1991 and completed an expansion that opened in 2002. Approximately 170,000 people visit the Museum annually. DATASOURCE: BellSouth Corporation CONTACT: Media, Ed Patterson of BellSouth, +1-678-406-2457, or ; or Gwen Harmon of National Civil Rights Museum, +1-901-521-9699, or Web site: http://www.bellsouth.com/ http://www.realpageslive.com/ http://www.yellowpages.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/095650.html

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