"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."
–Ida B. Wells
Productions include a documentary called “An Accidental Drowning,” which looks at the brutal 1939 lynching of Jesse Lee Bond in nearby Arlington, directed by Matteo Servente.
EJI Partners with Community to Honor Lynching Victims in Chattanooga, Tenn.
In this soil, there is the sweat of the enslaved. In the soil there is the blood of victims of racial violence and lynching. There are tears in the soil from all those who labored under the indignation and humiliation of segregation. But in the soil there is also the opportunity for new life, a chance to grow something hopeful and healing for the future.
- EJI Director Bryan Stevenson
Representative Johnnie Turner, whose comments from the Boxley Soil collection in Crockett County are shown in this video, will be speaking to the Lynching Sites Project at the Monday Meeting on October 23, 2017. The meetings take place at First Baptist Church on East Parkway, and are from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. We hope you will join us!
A friend of mine decided to begin a group to talk about racism in his church and modeled it after Alcoholics Anonymous/Twelve-Step groups in which members begin meetings by saying “my name is ____ and I am an alcoholic.”
Facing History and Ourselves is an organization that helps high school students recognize racism, anti-semitism, and all forms of bigotry so they can prevent it from happening in the future. It empowers students through knowledge of self and history so that they can become upstanders, people who will stand up and act for justice on behalf of their community.
LSP member Prof. Margaret Vandiver is hoping to make some progress on LSP research this summer and would welcome help from anyone who has the time and the interest! Here’s what she's hoping to work on:
One by one, dozens of people — black, white, young and old, a descendant of slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest and descendants of slaves — spoke out against the monuments, namely those of Forrest and the singular Confederate States president Jefferson Davis, that sit in city parks.
Roughly 50 more Memphians followed last night at Bruce Elementary School, in the first public meeting of Memphians for Removal of Confederate Monuments, speaking in favor of removing Memphis monuments to former Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. They spoke beneath a pre-existing, hand-colored banner proclaiming “We Are Conquerors,” an apparently unconnected piece of school paraphernalia. Perhaps it will prove prophetic.
EJI is excited to announce today's official launch of Lynching in America, a new interactive digital experience created in partnership with Google.
