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    1. On March 9, 1892, a white mob in Memphis lynched the three Black men who owned the People's Grocery Company in Memphis, Tennessee. calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/mar/09
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    The grocery had posed a competitive threat to the white business owner across the street who monopolized Black business in the area, extracting wealth at their expense.
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      The first opportunity to strike back came when Black children and white children at the two stores started fighting. The owners defended their store from a white mob that arrived to attack it.
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        Arrested by police, then lynched by a white mob, Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and William "Henry" Stewart were killed 127 years ago yesterday.
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          In his last words before death, Thomas Moss reportedly declared, "Tell my people to go west. There is no justice for them here." calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/mar/09
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