Many UCG members participated in the bus trip (or traveled on their own) to Montgomery, AL to visit the National Memorial to Peace and Justice, and the Legacy Museum. There we viewed jars of soil collected from the sites of victims of lynching, collected to honor and remember them.

The Alachua County Community Remembrance Project (ACCRP) will be hosting two soil collection ceremonies in February.

On Friday, February 5 at 10:00 AM the Concerned Citizens of Newberry will be having a soil collection ceremony at the Freddy Mack park, and live streamed on Mayor Jordan Marlowe’s Facebook page. (Due to COVID only 50 invited guests will attend the ceremony live). This ceremony will honor the six victims of the Newberry lynchings in 1916, and a seventh jar will be collected to recognize the other victims of that terrible day, for whom we do not know their names.

On February 20, at 12:00 PM, the Gainesville Community Remembrance Project will be hosting a ceremony to honor the 12 victims of racial terror that were killed in Gainesville between 1868 and 1942. More information about how to live stream this event will be listed in the UCG E-Vents email closer to the date.

All are encouraged to be witness to these events as we work towards truth and reconciliation in Alachua County.