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People's Grocery PART 1 The Red Record
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On March 9, 1892, Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Will Stewart were lynched in Memphis, TN. The Black men had formed a co-op called People’s Grocery that had drawn customers away from a nearby white competitor. Their murders led famed journalist and women’s suffragist Ida B. Wells to investigate the true racist motivations of lynchings and she was exiled soon after because of her writings.
Learn more here: https://lynchingsitesmem.org/lynching/peoples-grocery-lynchings-thomas-moss-will-stewart-calvin-mcdowell
Original newspaper article, page 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SB_0vvoDDg_xPJyBSfdWQhjgmqnqUAFh/view?usp=drivesdk
Original newspaper article, page 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XzMwEaX7nMOOKYW1Pi3J-RsGpA-27Wn6/view?usp=drivesdk
Above article courtesy of Memphis, Shelby County Room in Memphis Public Libraries.
On March 9, 1892, Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Will Stewart were lynched in Memphis, TN. The Black men had formed a co-op called People’s Grocery that had drawn customers away from a nearby white competitor. Their murders led famed journalist and women’s suffragist Ida B. Wells to investigate the true racist motivations of lynchings and she was exiled soon after because of her writings.
Learn more here: https://lynchingsitesmem.org/lynching/peoples-grocery-lynchings-thomas-moss-will-stewart-calvin-mcdowell
Original newspaper article, page 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SB_0vvoDDg_xPJyBSfdWQhjgmqnqUAFh/view?usp=drivesdk
Original newspaper article, page 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XzMwEaX7nMOOKYW1Pi3J-RsGpA-27Wn6/view?usp=drivesdk
Above article courtesy of Memphis, Shelby County Room in Memphis Public Libraries.
18 min