1917 Persons’ lynching site advances toward National Historic Register status
The lynching site that drew a crowd of 5,000 in 1917 is now an overgrown area by the Wolf River west of Summer Avenue.
Topic: Lynching Sites Project of Memphis
RSSThere are 7 article(s) tagged Lynching Sites Project of Memphis:
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December 2022
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October 2022
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Civil Wrongs: How a grisly lynching still haunts Memphis a century later
The lynching of Ell Persons on May 22, 1917, shaped Memphis history. Now, 105 years later, the site has remained nearly unscathed, but what has changed?
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March 2022
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Listen to the history of lynching sites in Memphis
“I think it’s really important to memorialize these events because human nature is to try to cover up painful parts of our history,” Lynching Sites Project of Memphis board member Laura Faith Kebede tells Eric Barnes.
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January 2022
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Tennessee project would honor lynching victims
Almost 82 years after the last documented lynching in Tennessee, a Republican and a Democrat want to commemorate all 154 victims statewide with Community Remembrance Project.
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July 2021
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Lynching site’s a reminder of past victims
A ceremony Thursday at the site of three lynchings more than a century ago was part of a week of Ida B. Wells events leading up to Friday’s statue unveiling.
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May 2020
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Ida B. Wells awarded special Pulitzer citation in part for Memphis work
Wells, whose journalistic roots were formed in the Memphis area, was honored by the Pulitzer Prize committee “For her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”
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October 2019
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Lynching Sites Project memorializes two men killed in Shelby County
The ceremony is the organization’s third lynching marker dedication of 36 total known victims to such violence in Shelby County’s history.
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