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Published 05/24/2019
By BWSTimes Staff
On Saturday, May 25, 2019, Memorial Day weekend, Tulsans will participate in a soil collection ceremony to begin paying homage to the lynched victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
All members of the Tulsa community are encouraged to attend the event that will begin promptly at 5 pm at the Historic Vernon Chapel AME Church (311 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74120).
Vernon Chapel is the last remaining edifice standing since the 1921 race massacre.
The ceremony will work in union with the Tulsa African Ancestral Society’s 22nd annual Black Wall Street Memorial March.
Dr. Robert Turner is this year’s Keynote Speaker.
In partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative, the Tulsa Community Remembrance Coalition‘s soil collection ceremony marks the first phase of events leading up to the highly-anticipated opening of the Tulsa County Lynching Memorial, which is scheduled to open in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Historic Vernon Chapel AME Church on September 14, 2019.
The following recognitions are just 36 of the 300 plus victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre which are currently memorialized at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dr. Andrew C. Jackson
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Carrie Diamond
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Cualey Walker
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Ed Adams
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Edward G. Howard
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Ed Lockard
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Eliza Talbot
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
George Hawkins
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
George Jeffery
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Greg Alexander
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Harry Barker
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Henry Walker
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Howard Barrens
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Joe Miller
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
John Wheeler
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Lewis Shelton
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
M.M. Sandridge
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Nelson Talbot
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Ruben T. Everett
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
Sam Ree
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
S.H. Pierce
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
William Hudson
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
William Turner
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
— Morrison
Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
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Lynched 05/31 – 06/01, 1921 — Tulsa County, OK
