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

See the video preview via the Ben Hooks Institute:

Ida B. Wells: The Lynching at the Curve
March 9, 1892- Three African American businessmen, Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Will Stewart, were murdered at the hands of a mob in Memphis, TN simply for running a better business than their white competitor. The lynching of these men, well respected in the African American community of Memphis, outraged Wells. Emboldened, Wells furiously fought against those who participated in, or ignored, violence against African Americans.
Produced by the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change. Feature length documentary about Ida B. Wells coming in Spring 2018!

#IdaBWells attacks racial violence after the lynching of 3 Af. Am. men. Feature film coming Spring 2018! #Choose901 https://t.co/wODqGS0sXg

— Ben Hooks Institute (@HooksInstitute) March 31, 2017
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change
Source date: 
Mar 31 2017 (all day)
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Ida B. Wells, The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change
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The People's Grocery Lynchings (Thomas Moss, Will Stewart, Calvin McDowell)

Mar 9 1892 (all day)

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

Illustration from Memphis Appeal Avalanche, 3/10/1892

Memphis Appeal Avalanche, 3/10/1892

New York Sun 3-10-1892

New York Sun, 3/10/1892

New York Times, 3/10/1892

New York Times, 3/11/1892

Appeal Avalanche, Drawings of Calvin McDowell and Thomas Moss

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

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
Site of the lynching (modern day)

Memphis and the Lynching at the Curve

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