Podcast: ID'ing lynching sites 'important for healing'
After four decades in the Army and the airline industry, John Ashworth is taking on a new challenge. Reclaiming history.
The Past for the Future, by Joshua Cannon
African-American historian John Ashworth will lead a citywide interfaith prayer service May 21st at the site where Persons was murdered, nearly 100 years to the date it occurred. Newspapers in 1917 created a spectacle of Persons' death for days leading to it, gathering thousands of people to what is now Summer and the Wolf River. After he was set afire, Persons was decapitated and taken to Beale Street, and his head was hurled at a group of black pedestrians.
Meet John Ashworth, Project Manager for May 2017 Events
Date:
01/04/2017 - 6:00pm
We hope you can join us from 6 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at Caritas Village, 2907 Harvard for a hour to meet and be in conversation with John. It will help our planning if you will contact us with your attendance plans.
Introducing John Ashworth, Project Manager for May 2017 Events
We are pleased and excited to share with you the news that John Ashworth will begin work on January 1 for the Lynching Sites Project of Memphis as Project Manager for the May 21, 2017 centennial commemoration of the lynching of Ell Persons. John’s contract will extend through June 2017.