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New York Times, 3/10/1892

Date:

Thursday, March 10, 1892 - 12:00am

Negroes Lynched by a Mob

Three Shot To Death At Memphis, Tenn.

The People's Grocery Lynchings (Thomas Moss, Will Stewart, Calvin McDowell)

Mar 9 1892

In March of 1892, in a mixed race neighborhood called the Curve, near Mississippi Blvd and Walker Avenue a white grocer named William Barrett found his business shrinking because of the success...

Research material

Polk's City Directory, 1891

Memphis Appeal Avalanche, 3/10/1892

New York Sun, 3/10/1892

New York Times, 3/11/1892

Appeal Avalanche, Drawings of Calvin McDowell and Thomas Moss, 3/28/1892

Photo: Ida B. Wells, Maurine Moss, Betty Moss, and Tom Moss, Jr.

People's Grocery Historical Marker

Ida B Wells Historical Marker mentioning the People's Grocery Lynching

News

Courtesy University of Chicago, via Nathaniel C. Ball, MA of The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change.

In 1892, Memphis and the world showed Thomas Moss HATE. Today, we can show his descendants LOVE.

YouTube

Ida B. Wells – The Light of Truth

YouTube

The Red Record: People's Grocery PART 2

The Red Record: People's Grocery PART 1

Ida B. Wells: The Lynching at the Curve (Feature film coming 2018)

The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change

Illustration of the Peoples Grocery Lynching from the March 10th, 1892 edition of the Memphis Appeal-Avalanche

How the Location of the Peoples Grocery Lynching Was Rediscovered

Local news coverage of the 125th anniversary of People's Grocery Lynchings

Focusing on local history (Commercial Appeal Letter to the Editor)

Commercial Appeal, Letters to the Editor, 3/9/2017

History: Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Passion for Justice, by Lee D. Baker

Memphis and the Lynching at the Curve

The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change (Nathaniel Collins Ball)

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