Lynching & racial terror
The People's Grocery lynchings
9 March 1892The Curve, and a rail yard north of the city, Memphis, TN
Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell and Will Stewart were lynched for running a successful Black-owned grocery. Their friend Ida B. Wells turned the killing into the modern anti-lynching movement.
- People killed
- 3
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