Remembrance Projects in Escambia County, FL have listed 6 lynchings that occurred in our county between 1877-1950. The EJI Remembrance Projects Committee for Escambia Co. has completed the first step in a 3-step Remembrance Projects process. We completed Soil Collection at all 6 of the sites, and held a ceremony at the time of collecting soil from the site of the 2 public lynchings in Plaza Ferdinand that occurred in 1908 (Leander Shaw) and 1909 (David Alexander). We are now working on the second project, installing a Historic Marker in Plaza Ferdinand; a high school essay contest is also a part of that step. The third Remembrance Project is to bring and install the replica of the Escambia County Monument that hangs in the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, AL. More information at website: www.eji.org.

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