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

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...

Read the story by Linda Moore

 

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...

Watch Jerica Phillips' report.

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....

Read the story by Linda Moore

Source date: 
Mar 9 2017 (all day)
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Commercial Appeal, WMCActionNews5
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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.

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Ida B. Wells – The Light of Truth

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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

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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