Memphis Students Unite Their Community 100 Years After A Lynching

by | May 24, 2017 | Community Meeting | 0 comments

One hundred years after his brutal lynching, Eli Persons was commemorated at a ceremony attended by 500 community members in Memphis (May 21, 2017) organized by a student-led activist group, Students Uniting Memphis (SUM) to bring awareness to this and other injustices.

Read about Bryan Stevenson’s (founder of the Equal Justice Initiative) efforts to memorialize lynchings across the country.

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