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Committee Discusses Historical Marker To Commemorate Victims Of Lynching In Gainesville
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Gainesville’s first soil collection ceremony memorializes city’s lynching victims
About 100 community members, Gainesville residents and local officials gathered to honor the 12 victims February 22, 2021 | 6:30am EST
Alachua County Commissioner Marihelen Wheeler, 69, (right) and her granddaughter Tashayla Downer, 8, (left) fill a jar with soil to honor Andrew Ford at the Gainesville Soil Collection Ceremony on Feb. 20, 2021. Ford was lynched in Gainesville on Aug. 24, 1891, according to a pamphlet from the Alachua County Community Remembrance Project. Photo by Julia Cooper | The Independent Florida Alligator
Latoya Brazil didn’t know the story of how her great-grandfather Lester Watts was lynched in Gainesville until she was 17
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Truth and reconciliation
Thank you to the Concerned Citizens of Newberry for the moving ceremony held Feb. 5 to honor the “Newberry 6” victims of lynching. Newberry is leading the way in bringing truth and reconciliation to Alachua County.
Gainesville will have a similar ceremony on Feb. 20 at noon on the west lawn of the County Administration building in Gainesville. Between 1868 and 1942, there were 12 known victims of lynching in Gainesville. We will say their names and speak the truth of what happened.
This event is outdoors and the community may attend (with masks and social distancing). It will also be live-streamed on the Alachua County Community Remembrance Project (ACCRP) Facebook page.