The Crime of Excellence: The Legacy of The People’s Grocery Store in Memphis

About this episode

Karen honors the legacy of Memphis' People’s Grocery Store and its impact on the anti-lynching movement.

Karen honors the legacy of Memphis' People’s Grocery Store, a thriving Black-owned cooperative founded in 1889, while exploring how its profound economic success tragically provoked a violent, jealous backlash that resulted in the lynching of its founders and fueled Ida B. Wells’s historic anti-lynching crusade.

People in this episode

Host: Karen Hunter

Topics covered

• Black-owned businesses
• economic success
• lynching
• historical legacy
• anti-lynching crusade

Keywords

• People’s Grocery Store
• Memphis
• Ida B. Wells
• lynching
• Black-owned cooperative
• economic success
• historical legacy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: People’s Grocery Store

Places: Memphis

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