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,...

murdered on 9 April 1891 by unknown people. No one was ever charged with the crime. The People's Grocery lynchings were a series of racially motivated...

Southerners. Lynchings in the U.S. reached their height from the 1890s to the 1920s, and they primarily victimized ethnic minorities. Most of the lynchings occurred...

evidence of rape. The 1920 lynchings are the only known instance of lynching of African-Americans in Minnesota. Twenty other lynchings were recorded in Minnesota...

B. Wells, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody in Memphis, Tennessee, in an event known as the Peoples Grocery lynching. The act sparked...

were also lynched. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post–Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. White lynchings of black people also occurred...

resulted in a series of lynchings in May 1918 in southern Georgia, United States. White people killed at least 13 black people during the next two weeks...

led Wells to begin investigating lynchings. She began to interview people associated with lynchings, including a lynching in Tunica, Mississippi, in 1892...

Deep South; 73 percent of lynchings took place in the Southern United States. Between 1882 and 1903, 125 black-on-black lynchings were recorded in 10 southern...

in 1889. Received national attention for its coverage of the People's Grocery lynchings in 1892. No copies survive. Memphis Index 1923 1936 Memphis The...

Safeway, Inc. is an American supermarket chain. The chain provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and a variety of specialty departments...

has been installed to memorialize the lynching. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of lynchings were committed primarily in the Southern...

court that the People's Grocery was a nuisance. The court ordered the owners arrested. Fearing an attack, supporters of the People's Grocery armed themselves...

Moore's Ford lynchings was contacted by a group called Come to the Table in Newnan, Georgia, that wanted to commemorate Hose's lynching. Rusk had led...

B. Wells, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody in Memphis, Tennessee, in an event known as the People's Grocery lynching. This act sparked...

Hobbs wrote about the lynching and three other lynchings in her 2015 book Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida. List of unsolved...

lynching postcards themselves, it banned the racist text that often accompanied them, which made "too explicit what was always implicit in lynchings"...

outbreak of violence was followed by two more lynchings in Texas, one in Oklahoma, and several lynching attempts. Widespread economic difficulty caused...

battled with the lynchings in the South and in the North.[citation needed] List of lynchings and other homicides in Illinois Lynching in the United States...

interest in Safeway Inc., transforming the small grocery store into the country's third-largest grocery store chain by the early 1930s. In 1930, Charles...

Tourgée's legal brief. In the wake of an 1892 lynching in Memphis known as the Peoples Grocery lynching, anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells wrote about the case...

was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality...

middle- and upper-class whites were beginning to disapprove of lynchings, and the belief that lynch mobs were an "expansive luxury" the South could no longer...

United States. Lynchings of African-Americans were common in 1910, with 67 lynchings of African-Americans occurring that year. Many white people were dismayed...

Lynch is a home rule-class city in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. In the 2020 census the city population was 658, down from 747 in 2010. Lynch...

anti-Italian prejudice. The March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the largest ever mass lynchings in Louisiana history. The use of the term "mafia" by...

Wright, George C. Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865–1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings", University of Illinois Press, 1990, pp. 123-124 Wright...

relatives in Mississippi in 1955. He visited a grocery store in Money, Mississippi called Bryant's Grocery, which was owned by Donham and her husband Roy...

interest in Safeway Inc., transforming the small grocery store into the country's third largest grocery store chain by the early 1930s. In 1930, Merrill...

the people. Ida B. Wells was a significant figure in the anti-lynching movement. After the lynchings of her three friends, she condemned the lynchings in...