Search results
May 14, 2024 · The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama includes over 800 steel monuments, one for each county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place. Their Community Remembrance Project invites jurisdictions to claim and install a copy of their monument.
Feb 13, 2024 · The Alexandria Community Remembrance Project (ACRP) is a city-wide initiative dedicated to helping Alexandria understand its history of racial terror hate crimes and to work toward creating a welcoming community bound by equity and inclusion.
People also ask
What is the Alexandria Community Remembrance Project?
Where is the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery?
What is the national memorial for peace & justice?
What does Alexandria's Racial Terror Committee do?
Nov 16, 2021 · By Paula Tarnapol Whitacre | November 16, 2021 | 1 comment. One of the newest—yet oldest—members of the National Park Service’s African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN) is the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, first established in 1864 in Alexandria, Virginia. The sites in the AACRN, created by Congress in 2017, “offer a ...
Jul 24, 2021 · Following the burial of 118 United States Colored Troops (as Black soldiers were known at the time) in the cemetery, the area became the site of Alexandria‘s first known civil rights...
Reflecting on the journey. From October 6th through 10th, ACT team members Heather Peeler and Sally Gardner (as well as other members of the ACT community) were able to participate in the The Alexandria Community Remembrance Project (ACRP) pilgrimage to the Equal Justice Initiative’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum.
Nov 2, 2022 · As a community, ACRP delivered soil reflecting the lives of Alexandria’s two known lynching victims – Joseph McCoy and Benjamin Thomas -- to EJI on October 7, 2022. The trip included tours with social justice activists and visits to Montgomery and Selma civil rights sites.
Aug 21, 2019 · On Aug. 21, 1939, five young black men staged a sit-in at the library on Queen Street in Alexandria, Virginia; they were protesting the library’s exclusion of black people. This sit-in 80...
