This essay contest is part of the community remembrance work of the Whitfield Community Remembrance Project. EJI has documented at least 702 racial terror lynchings of African Americans in the State of Georgia between 1865 and 1950.
EJI's broader Community Remembrance Project focuses on memorializing the more than 6,500 Black victims of racial terror lynching killed between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and World War II. Communities across our nation have been profoundly impacted by the legacies of the eras of enslavement, racial terror lynching, and segregation in ways that continue to influence our social, political, and personal practices and institutions. EJI and local communities are working together to help advance a more truthful understanding of this history. We believe that a deeper understanding about our nation’s history of racial injustice is important to addressing contemporary questions of social justice and equality, and each project helps our nation participate more fully in a sequential process of truth and reconciliation.
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