New memorial for black lynching victims influenced by Holocaust memory
How Jewish memory inspired black activists and historians to remember and talk about the painful legacy of racial violence in America.
A marker on a street corner in the Soulsville neighbourhood marks the spot of the People's Grocery lynching of African-American proprietors Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell and Will Stewart in 1892, which spurred Ida B. Wells in her crusade against lynching, in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. March 26, 2018.(photo credit: JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERS)ByJTAUpdated:
