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The Malicious and Untruthful White Press

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Memphis's own newspapers in their own words — followed by the story the press buried: three Black grocers lynched for defending their store against an armed mob.

Daily Commercial's 'More Rapes, More Lynchings' editorialEvening Scimitar on Black 'insolence'The People’s Grocery lynchingCalvin McDowell

4 sections · ~8 min read