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LSP Memphis by Tom Haley

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Source date: 
May 24 2018 (all day)
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Ell Persons, Jesse Lee Bond, Tom Haley
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Ell Persons

May 22 1917 (all day)

A Brief Version of the Lynching of Ell Persons on May 22, 1917

In May, 1917 the decapitated body of a 16 year old white girl, named Antoinette Rappel, a student at...

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Research material

News Scimitar, 5/3/1917 (Photos of Antoinette Rappal)

Police Report, 5/4/1917

Indictment, 5/8/1917

News Scimitar, 5/8/1917

Request for Troops, 5/17/1917

Commercial Appeal, 5/17/1917

News Scimitar, 5/22/1917 (Lynch bulletins)

The Tacoma Times, 5/22/1917

The Seattle Star, 5/22/1917

Hickory Daily Record, 5/22/1917

Evening Star, 5/22/1917

Commercial Appeal, 5/22/1917

Commercial Appeal, 5/23/1917

Covington Leader, 5/24/1917

Columbus Commercial, 5/24/1917

Ell Persons Death Certificate, 5/24/1917

Putnam County Herald, 5/24/1917

McNairy County Independent, 5/25/1917

NAACP Supplement to the Crisis, July 1917

News

Commemoration of the 105th Anniversary of the Lynching of Ell Persons - May 22, 2022

YouTube

Michele Whitney Remarks on the May 21st Ell Persons Memorial Service, 2017

YouTube

March 2022 Valor High Visit to Ell Persons Lynching Site

Why It's Time for Me to Listen by Steve Strain

A couple say farewell to Memphis after 'grueling but healing' work on the Lynching Sites Project, by David Waters

The Daily Memphian

How Soil Acts as a Living Witness to Racial Violence by Leanna First-Arai

Yes! Magazine

How the South Memorializes — and Forgets — Its History of Lynching

TIME

GROWING DOWN INTO THE GOODNESS OF OUR GRIEF Grief in the Life of the Lynching Sites Project

Pilgrimage Reflections by Tom Thrailkill

Opinion | Lynching memorial honors victims' bodies and souls

The Commercial Appeal
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/lens/echoes-of-lynchings-in-quiet-photos.html

Echoes of Lynchings in Quiet Photos

The New York Times

Statue Removal-Letter to the Editor

"The Way To Make Things Right" by Rabbi Micah Greenstein

Responsible for Remembering

Watch Love Work
http://facingtoday.facinghistory.org/author/michele-whitney

How The Legacy of Ell Persons Lives On With Michele Whitney

Facing History and Ourselves

Michele Whitney Remarks on May 21st

https://youtu.be/j3vgxRLR2uQ

Ell Persons, May 21st Commemoration Wolf River

Ell Persons, May 21st Commemoration Wolf River

The lynching of Ell Persons finds a lasting imprint on the Memphis NAACP chapter

High Ground News

Memphis Students Unite Their Community 100 Years After A Lynching

Stacey Perlman, Facing Today

Seeking repentance for a 100-year-old lynching

Andrea Morales, MLK50
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