Mr. Randell Gamble

Randell Gamble is a native Californian born in Oakland, California.  He graduated from Castlemont High School and moved to Memphis in 1993, where he retired from Navy service in 1996. He became involved with the Lynching Sites Project of Memphis (LSP) from its inception in 2015.  He is one of the co-founders and an Ambassador.  He was called to do this work after hearing about the late Dr. James Cameron in 2006 after a peace conference. Dr. Cameron survived a near lynching in Marion, Indiana in 1930 and founded the America Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He learned about the book “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” from a Judge who took a class at the Memphis Theological Seminary (MTS) in 2012, and wrote a report on one of the lynchings in Shelby County.  His passion is building relationships (Beloved Community) with diverse people in working to Strive Toward Freedom, in the spirit of Rev. Martin Luther King.  He has two adult children and one granddaughter who reside in Memphis.