The Crime of Excellence: The Legacy of The People’s Grocery Store in Memphis
Episode Ep 394 13 min

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

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.

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