Before there was a FedEx, Beale Street, or the Bluff City we know today — there was People’s Grocery. A symbol of Black independence and entrepreneurship, it stood for what Memphis could be… until hate took it away. Remember Thomas Moss, Will Stewart, and Calvin McDowell — and the movement they sparked through Ida B. Wells. #UnapologeticallyMemphis #MemphisHistory #KnowThe901