Community Groups Advance Racial Justice Through Public History Work

In the past few months, hundreds of community members around the country have partnered with EJI’s Community Remembrance Project to acknowledge and document our history of racial terror by unveiling narrative historical markers.

Jacksonville, Florida

On October 17, 904WARD and the Jacksonville Community Remembrance Project, in partnership with EJI, unveiled a historical marker at the Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida. The marker memorializes Bowman Cook and John Morine, two Black World War I veterans who were lynched during the Red Summer of 1919.

About 100 people gathered in person to attend the ceremony, which was also live streamed and is available to watch on the coalition’s YouTube page.

The coalition has hosted community soil collections for Bowman…