WE STAND IN REMEMBRANCE OF …
Aaron, Anthony and Randall — three enslaved people who lost their lives to racial terror in Washington County Arkansas in 1856 after being falsely accused of murdering their enslaver. An accusation based only on hearsay evidence.
Marker Dedication May, 15, 2021 Oaks Cemetery, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
ABOUT US
In affiliation with the Equal Justice Initiative, the Washington County Community Remembrance Project is comprised of a group of Washington county citizens who have dedicated themselves to engage in discussion and action to disrupt a culture of misinformation, silence and complacency about the history of racial terror in our area.
NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) opened a groundbreaking memorial in Montgomery dedicated to African American victims of racial terror lynchings called the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice contains monuments corresponding to over 800 counties where EJI documented racial terror lynchings.
