Ida B. Wells wrote of her friend Thomas Moss: A finer, cleaner man than he never walked the streets of Memphis. He was well liked, a favorite with everybody; yet he was murdered with no more consideration than if he had been a dog . . . The colored people feel that every white man in Memphis who consented in his death is as guilty as those who fired the guns which took his life. And then she offered an indictment of the entire system governing the city: . . . with the aid of the city and county authorities and the daily papers, that white grocer had indeed put an end to his rival Negro grocer
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