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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 ...
S.A. Wilbun: [10] First African American male to serve as the Assistant City Attorney in Memphis, Tennessee (1964) [Shelby County, Tennessee] John George Morris: [33] First Greek American lawyer in Memphis, Tennessee [Shelby County, Tennessee] Joe Brown: [34] First African American male prosecutor in Memphis, Tennessee [Shelby County, Tennessee]
Thomas Waterson — police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in a Memphis raid in 1933 Luke J. Weathers (1920–2011) — former U.S. Army Air Force officer and member of Tuskegee Airmen [ 6 ] Ida B. Wells — civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
Jurors began their deliberations Thursday, a day after prosecutors and defense attorneys presented closing arguments in the trial of Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius […]
Maschmeyer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Emerance Maschmeyer (born 1994), Canadian hockey player; Carsten Maschmeyer (born 1959), German businessman, investor, speaker, and author; Thomas Maschmeyer (born 1966), German-Australian chemist
RowVaughn Wells, the mother of Tyre Nichols, speaks to the press as attorney Ben Crump comforts her outside Odell Horton Federal Building after Desmond Mills Jr., one of the now-former Memphis ...
On March 22, news broke that Intrator's 5.56-acre Pinch District development site was for sale.Real estate firm Newmark is brokering the sale. The listing includes the 21-parcels acquired by ...
Adonis Thomas (born 1993), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League; Carla Thomas (born 1942), singer, dubbed "the Queen of Memphis Soul" J. Karen Thomas, actress, singer; Jake Thomas, actor; Lane Thomas, baseball player; Hugh F. Thomason (1826–1893), politician; born in Smith County; Fred Dalton Thompson, politician and ...