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2. People's Grocery lynchings - Wikipedia

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   People's Grocery, Memphis Tennessee, c. 1890. 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 ...

3. National Civil Rights Museum - Wikipedia

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   Vehicles on display include an International Harvester garbage truck in an exhibit on the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike that brought King to Memphis, James Earl Ray's 1966 white Ford Mustang, a 1968 Cadillac and 1959 Dodge parked outside the motel, a re-creation of the burned shell of a Greyhound bus used by Freedom Riders, and a bus ...

4. Rich's (department store) - Wikipedia

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   *Nursery for children on 2nd floor Message desk on 2nd floor of Crystal Bridge; 1951 6-story Store for Men (new building) 2 new (segregated) cafeterias, one for white employees (350 seats) and one for black employees (with lockers and restrooms) New snack bar, new pharmacy; 1957 Rich's bought the rest of the block where their main store was ...

5. Memphis police discriminate against Black people, US Justice ...

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   The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and discriminates against Black people, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday following an investigation, calling on the Tennessee city's ...

6. Black Lodge no more? Famous Memphis venue/movie rental store ...

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   Founded by cinephile buddies Martin and Bryan Hogue (who died in 2020) and named for an extradimensional space in David Lynch's cult television series "Twin Peaks," Black Lodge opened in 2000 in a ...

7. Whitehaven, Memphis - Wikipedia

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   Formerly a farm community, Whitehaven was developed as a residential suburban area of Memphis in the 1950s and early 1960s. In 1950, Whitehaven had a population of 1,311. [10] In 1960, Whitehaven had a population of 13,894. [11] On January 1, 1970, Whitehaven was forcefully annexed by the City of Memphis. [12]