{The lynching of her three friends was the start of Ida B. Wells’ campaign against the vile crime} The Lynching of Moss, McDowell and Stewart Back in the day on March 9th, 1892, a white mob in Memphis, Tennessee lynched Thomas Moss, Clavin McDowell, and Henry Stewart. The three African-American men had just recently opened “The People’s [...]
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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