What the records say
- When
- 9 Mar 1892
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 3
- Coordinates
- 35.15° N, 90.05° W
- Description
- lynching in 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
People's Grocery lynchings
1892 lynchings in Memphis, Tennessee
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.
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