THIS DAY IN HISTORY March 9, 1892: The People’s Grocery Lynchings

“This is what opened my eyes to what lynching really was. An excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized and keep them down.” — Ida B. Wells after People’s Grocery lynching in Memphis #tdih 1892.

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