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Rich Watkins

LSP Extends our heartfelt gratitude to Rich Watkins for his leadership, and honors his remarkable 3-year tenure as Board President

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Lynching site of Ell Persons may be added to National Register of Historic Places

 

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - As Black History Month comes to a close, Action News 5 looked back on one of the darkest events in Shelby County--the 1917 lynching of Ell Persons, a Black man murdered for a crime historians say he likely did not commit.

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1917 Memphis lynching site considered for National Register of Historic Places

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The site of a brutal mob attack more than a century ago in Memphis could become the first lynching site in the country listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a local historian says.

It was a case that echoed all the way to Washington and New York City.

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LSP Testifies in Legislative Hearing: Evaluating Lynching Locations (ELL) for National Parks

MEMPHIS, TN - The Lynching Sites Project of Memphis (LSP) Board President, Rich Watkins, will testify before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands at a legislative hearing on H. R. 7912. This hearing is scheduled to be held on July 14, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET in 1324 Longworth House Office Building and via WebEx. The hearing will be live-streamed on the Committee’s YouTube page.

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