There are 2 article(s) tagged People's Grocery Lynching:

• March 2024

  • Cemetery cleanup can’t wash away painful past

    The Zion Community Project’s annual cleanup and wreath-laying ceremony at Memphis’ oldest Black graveyard memorializes victims of the 1892 People’s Grocery Lynching. 

    By Kambui Bomani March 10, 2024

• March 2021

  • Fundraising for Zion Christian Cemetery will help continue preservation work

    Long-term plans for the cemetery would make it a tourist stop highlighting the accomplishments of the African Americans who are buried there.

    By Linda A. Moore March 17, 2021