There are 6 article(s) tagged Lynching Sites Project:

• July 2022

  • Film aims to show how Memphis helped shape Ida B. Wells

    “I want people to see (Ida B. Wells) as a real person. I also want to see Memphis as a character in the development of Ida B. Wells because she’s not coming from thin air.”

    By Mikayla Higgins July 23, 2022

• October 2019

  • Studying our violent history, with courage and the Lynching Sites Project

    A murder deserves justice whether it happened yesterday or more than 160 years ago. Please join us Saturday morning at Collins Chapel CME Church. 

    By Jennifer Bennie October 16, 2019

• September 2019

  • Conaway: Facing Shelby County’s infamous history of lynching

    As people are being shot while shopping and praying and driving because of what they might or might not believe, or just because of what they look like, it serves us well to remember that we have plenty of homegrown terrorism in our history.

    By Dan Conaway September 20, 2019

• June 2019

  • Co-founders of Lynching Sites Project are proof of the ‘butterfly effect’

    The gift Randall Mullins and Sharon Pavelda gave to the Memphis community is a safe space to go out of the grief of racial terrorism by going through the grief of racial terrorism.

    By John Ashworth June 02, 2019

• May 2019

  • Waters: A couple say farewell to Memphis after ‘grueling but healing’ work on the Lynching Sites Project

    Randall Mullins and Sharon Pavelda founded a project to identify and memorialize lynching sites in Shelby County, and helped create a community of supporters, from the National Park Service to the local NAACP, preachers and politicians, activists and academics.

    By David Waters May 29, 2019

• October 2018

  • Montgomery to Memphis

    If you want to really know your country, Memphis is a good place to start. Artists such as Howlin’ Wolf and Elvis Presley brought American culture together and sent it around the world from a studio only steps from where a slave trader was celebrated in a city park. Martin Luther King Jr. marched for economic justice, climbed to the mountaintop, and was taken by an assassin’s bullet, all within a triangle separated by a couple of miles.

    By Chris Herrington October 11, 2018