Thomas Moss: The Black Entrepreneur Who Was Lynched by a White Mob and Robbed of His Business in 1892 - TalkAfricana

Art City Bologna: A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday

Tired of the epidemic of police killing people in the USA, artist Dread Scott printed the words “A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday” on a flag. He got the idea in 2015, right after the police shot Walter Scott in the back as he was fleeing after a control for a non-functioning brake light. The work is an update of the flag that the NAACP flew from their national headquarters window in New York in the nineteen-twenties and thirties the day aft…

Thomas Moss: The Black Entrepreneur Who Was Lynched by a White Mob and Robbed of His Business in 1892 - TalkAfricana

Thomas Moss was a successful Black entrepreneur and postman in Memphis, Tennessee, known for co-owning the People’s Grocery, a thriving business that provided an alternative to white-owned stores in the area. In 1892, Moss was falsely accused of inciting violence, arrested, and lynched by a white mob along with his employees, Will Stewart and Calvin […] TalkAfricana