![]() ![]() The ceremony concluded with remarks from coalition leaders Kate Borchard-Schoen and Timika Wilson, who invited the audience to continue reflecting on this history by reading the markers and placing soil in the jars. Coalition member and Director of the Union Tourism Office, Curtiss Hunter, said, “By honoring the soil where lynching victims died, we are acknowledging the history of bloodshed that has seeped into the earth while simultaneously reclaiming it as sacred.” ![]() The coalition also unveiled a marker in front of the historic jail where the 1871 massacre took place that was sponsored by the South Carolina Historical Marker Program.įollowing the marker unveilings, the coalition hosted a soil collection ceremony in which soil was placed in jars to memorialize the county’s 19 victims of racial terror lynching. One documents the 1871 Union County Jail Raid Massacre in which 12 Black men were abducted and lynched by a white mob, and a second memorializes 19 victims of racial terror lynching killed in Union County between 18. The Union County Community Remembrance Project coalition partnered with EJI to unveil two historical markers in downtown Union. Attendees included descendants of the victims who were being memorialized and elders within the Union community. On June 19, nearly 200 people gathered in the City of Union in South Carolina to learn about the history of racial terrorism in their county, to memorialize the Black men, women, and children who were lynched between 18, and to acknowledge the ongoing resilience of the Black community. ![]()
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