An event in this city led to the hasty implementation of the Poor People's Campaign and to a riot in Washington, D.C. faced by Mayor Walter Washington.
In this city, Thomas Moss, the owner of the Peoples Grocery, was lynched by a white mob, prompting resident Ida B. Wells to call for blacks to leave this city. Voting rights in this city were protected by the machine of "Boss" Crump. An event in this city led to the hasty implementation of the Poor People's Campaign and to a riot in Washington, D.C. faced by Mayor Walter Washington. During Henry Loeb's tenure as mayor of this city, Echol Cole and Robert Walker were accidentally crushed to death, leading to a strike of (*) sanitation workers. The speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop" was given in support of that strike in this city by a man who was shot the next day in the Lorraine Motel by James Earl Ray. For 10 points, name this city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the largest city in Tennessee.
In this city, Thomas Moss, the owner of the Peoples Grocery, was lynched by a white mob, prompting resident Ida B. Wells to call for blacks to leave this city.
Memphis