"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."
–Ida B. Wells
As I will be vacating the Board of Lynching Sites Project of Memphis July 1, this is my valedictory statement about work with this very significant organization in our community.
LYNCHING SITES PROJECT MEMPHIS: A GOOD AND HOLY WORK
by Fred Morton
April 26, 2020
The ritual of soil collection is an integral part of our work of remembering and lamenting the great horrors of racial violence committed throughout our land and in this very county.
Lives were viciously taken without due process or legal consideration of any kind. It was a form of racial violence calculated to discount and trivialize persons of color even to the extent of desecrating the remains of the victims and denying to kin and friend the decency of burial and sacred remembrance. These victims' lives were snatched from public memory as if they never lived.
by David Waters, Commercial Appeal
When the Rev. Fred Morton began his ministry in Whitehaven, in the midst of the racial tensions of early 1968, he thought he was ready for the challenge.
The March Resumes
June 11, 2018
The March Continues
May 29, 2018
A March Completed
May 16, 2018