Stephen recently retired from Southwest Tennessee Community College where he taught American history for nearly 40 years. He interviewed his grandfather in 1972 obtain a family history and as part of that interview he discussed the lynching.
It made quite an impression on him and he remembered many of the facts exactly as they happened over 50 years later. Stephen wrote an article about the lynching after he researched it that was published in Memphis Magazine in 1980 entitled The Last Lynching in Memphis.