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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.
Newberry honors lynching victims in soil collection ceremony
Alachua County organizations worked with the Equal Justice Initiation to pay tribute and apologize to the Newberry Six February 8, 2021 | 6:30am EST Gail K. Watson (left) and Brenda Whitfield (right) scoop dirt into glass jars at the soil ceremony for the Newberry Six on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Whitfield spoke during the ceremony before the crowd began adding earth to the containers. Photo by Chasity Maynard | The Independent Florida Alligator
On the cold, cloudy Friday morning, more than 50 people gathered to pay tribute to the Newberry Six victims of a 1916 lynching in a soil collection ceremony held beneath an old tree’s twisting branches a
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As I listened to Warren Lee a descendent of James Dennis, one of the victims of the 1916 lynching in Newberry talk about growing up with that painful history, I was deeply moved by his story.
He grew up in Jonesville and Newberry, where everyone knew about the lynching … but no one talked openly about it. He spoke about Dudley Farms, a place praised as a historic site, but one that never talked about its part of this painful history.
Thankfully beginning this year, the young people at Newberry High School are being taught the history of the atrocities of the Jim Crow era, due to the work of Concerned Citizens of Newberry and Mayor Jordan Marlowe. Gainesville high schools offer African-American history as an elective.