People's Grocery lynchings
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People's Grocery lynchings
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The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody. The lynchings occurred in the aftermath of a fight between whites and blacks and two subsequent shooting altercations in which two white police officers were wounded. The store was located just outside Memphis in a neighborhood called the "Curve". Opened in 1889,
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1892 lynchings in Memphis, Tennessee
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2024-04-14T09:24:07Z
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