Commercial Appeal: 125th anniversary of People's Grocery lynching remembered
March 9, 2017
The victims of the People's Grocery lynching were remembered Thursday beginning with a wreath laying ceremony at Zion Christian Cemetery in South Memphis.
About 50 people, including local clergy and students from a Sacramento, California high school, gathered around the grave of Thomas Moss, the only victim's gravesite that has been located...
WMCActionNews5: Community honors victims of historic Memphis lynching
March 9, 2017
More than 120 years ago, a tragedy in Memphis made the front page of the New York Times.
Thursday marks the 125th anniversary of the People's Grocery Store Lynching...
Commercial Appeal: Events to remember People's Grocery lynching
March 7, 2017
The victims of the 1892 People's Grocery lynching, which launched the anti-lynching crusade of journalist Ida B. Wells and caused thousands of African-Americans to flee Memphis, will be remembered on Thursday with events at the cemetery where they were buried and a program near the location of the store....
