Host a conversation

Join the effort to share this history and reckon with our past by hosting a conversation — you could do this with friends, family, or a group you are a part of. Here are printable brief summaries of each man’s story and the project, a conversation guide, and a menu of other EJI resources to consider sharing:

Additional resources from the Equal Justice Initiative:

“What is a racial terror lynching?”
Bryan Stevenson (1 minute 31 seconds)

“Why are memorials to lynching victims important?”
Bryan Stevenson (1:26)

“Terror lynching in America”
A video/artwork-based explanation (5:17)

“Lynching in America” from EJI
One family’s story (6:44)

EJI’s “Lynching in America” report and its companion piece “Reconstruction in America: Racial Violence After the Civil War”
Context, data, stories and more in printable, downloadable form

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Members of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Remembrance Project Steering Committee can provide facilitation support to groups convening 35+ people in a discussion.

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If you would like to book Hannah Hasan to perform the poems “It Happened Here” please visit HannahHasan.com.

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