Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle

I have heard of it.

But no, I did not hear about the women erasure. Although that doesnt surprise me because women were involved in nearly every revolt, if not all

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it's okay. lol, you guys are the scholars and I learn it all from.the work you do. Im just the layperson intermediary who might be able to reach the people you might not.

Telling stories to people who may not read it elsewhere.

Maybe it'll inspire them like it did me

her autobiography

22. So what happened to the People's Grocery?

The white residents ransacked it. Tore it apart.
And then it was sold to William Barrett, the owner of the white grocery store across the street.

The whole thing was really about the audacity of Black self-sufficiency and jealousy

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Chapter 6 in Ida B Wells-Barnett's autobiography entitled: Lynching at the Curve. Which recounts what happened at the People's Grocery and the lynchings that followed

Chapter 6 of Paula Giddings' biography on Ida B Wells-Barnett entitled: City of Three Murdered Men." Which recounts the context behind the lynchings and the event itself

21. "The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched."

20. "...which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life."

19. But there's one line that has always had the biggest impact on me, so I will quote it in full:

The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection...

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

18. Ida B Wells would go on to write a pamphlet called:

"Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases."

She excoriated the violence of the South. Tabulating the lynchings and correcting the stories.

And exposing the truth behind the so-called (g)rapes committed by Black men on white women

17. This event would place Well's on a trajectory that would have her exiled from Memphis, her newspaper destroyed, her life threatened, and to spend the rest of her life exposing the violence and hypocrisy of the South.

THOUSANDS of Blacks left Memphis after that and went West

16. Moss uttered:

"Tell my people to go West, there is no justice for them here.

This event changed a young teacher and journalist's life forever.

Ida B Wells was best friends with Moss & his wife. She was their children's godmother

15. Nine of them went in and retrieved Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and William Stewart.

They dragged them from their cells and brought them to a rail yard outside Memphis.

Despite putting up a noble fight, I will not relay the details here.

Thomas Moss's last words were recorded...

14. This went on for 2 days, from March 6 to March 8. After believing tensions had mostly cooled, the armed men left the jail grounds. Which were already well protected without them.

This was a grave mistake.

On the early morning of March 9, 1892, 75 masked men surrounded the jail.

13. The next day, hundreds of white men were deputized and went door to door, rounding up Black people, including the owner of the store, Thomas Moss.

Armed Black men gathered outside the jail to protect those arrested, knowing a mob might try to break in and lynch them

12. Anticipating an impending mob attack, the men inside immediately began shooting, injuring several of the white men.

They ran from the store to Barrett's store across the street. They deputized more men, ran into the store and arrested 13 men from the People's Grocery

11. Then the local newspapers got involved, telling of a Black conspiracy which ignited a local judge to round up a posse to get rid of them.

That evening, six deputized armed white men - including the sheriff - went to the People's Grocery asking about Stewart, surrounding the store

10. McDowell picked up the dropped gun and took a shot at Barrett and missed.

He was arrested and a warrant was issued my Stewart.

The warrant enraged the Black community. Barrett went to the authorities telling of a Black conspiracy to attack the White community

9. The next day, Barrett returned to the People's Grocery with a police officer looking for the man - William Stewart - who had struck him.

Instead he was met by McDowell who said he hadn't seen Stewart. Barrett then drew his gun and hit McDowell.

But he also dropped the gun

8. The two workers from the People's Grocery were William Stewart and Calvin McDowell, who worked for Thomas Moss.

The Black crowd got the best of the men, including William Barrett - the white store owner - who immediately went to the police.

7. On March 2, a game of marbles between a Black boy & White boy turned into a fight outside the People's Grocery Store.

When the Black kid was getting the best of the other kid, the boy's father came out & began beating the Black kid.

Two workers came to the boy's defense and a brawl broke out

6. With the help of the surrounding Black community, Moss opened a co-op grocery store called "The People's Grocery" with 11 other individuals.

The venture was very successful, essentially stripping Barrett's white owned grocery of its Black consumer base.

Black economic success was dangerous

5. In early March of 1892, some boys got into a scuffle at a grocery store.

There was a white owned grocery store owned by William Barrett, who had a monopoly on Black business until Thomas Moss, postman & entrepreneur decided to open a competing grocery store across the street

4. But despite the "race riots" that would break out across the south the subsequent decades, Memphis remained largely without mass violence.

Until 1892.

1892 saw the largest number of lynchings in any year between the years of 1877 and 1950 when statistics were collected

3. One day a few Black soldiers got into a scuffle with white police officers who had been antagonizing the soldiers for weeks.

By the time it was over, at least 50 Black people lay dead as white mobs, as they indiscriminately attacked Black citizens and burned their neighborhood

2. Memphis Tennessee was the first city to break out in a large race massacre after the Civil War in 1866.

Black soldiers were used to patrol Memphis after the Civil War, which created racial tensions amongst its white population.

I wanna tell the story of where my screen name came from. It's a story some of you are probably already familiar with but it deserves retelling.

It's well documented that thousands of Black people were killed by lynchings for decades, but the year 1892 was particularly egregious 🧵

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