Lynching Sites Project memorializes two men killed in Shelby County
Lashonna Jackson and Military Retirees of the Tri-State Area Ronald Levy and James McLemore present markers memorializing two lynching victims during the Lynching Site Project ceremony at Collins CME Chapel Church in Downtown Memphis on Oct. 19, 2019. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian.)
Lashonna Jackson attends the Lynching Site Project memorial at Collins CME Chapel Church in Downtown Memphis on Oct. 19, 2019. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian.)
Jennifer Bennie reads news articles about the lynching victims to the audience during the Lyching Site Project memorial at Collins CME Chapel Church in Downtown Memphis on Oct. 19, 2019. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian.)
Lauren Shine tries to hold back tears as white audience members and participants read aloud a prepared epilogue serving as self-awareness, apology and future intent of their ancestors' and peers' past wrongdoings during the Lynching Site Project memorial at Collins CME Chapel Church in Downtown Memphis on Oct. 19, 2019. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian.)
During the Lynching Site Project memorial at Collins CME Chapel Church in Downtown Memphis on Oct. 19, 2019, LeMoyne-Owen Choir members Emmanuel Lugo (from right), Dorneisha Bowling and Jon Turner place portions of earth in jars to represent paying respects at the burials of two Memphis lynching victims. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
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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