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Remembrance Coalition asks to place lynching memorial marker by City Hall
Site easement on City Council 5:30 p.m. Tuesday agenda; topic one of several for 3:30 work session
The Statesboro-Bulloch Remembrance Coalition set out its plan of action during the Jan. 4 event “Bulloch Bears Witness: Music, Memory, and Moving Forward,” where Pastors Frankie, right, and Jean Owens, left, of the Original First African Baptist Church, s
The Statesboro-Bulloch Remembrance Coalition set out its plan of action during the Jan. 4 event “Bulloch Bears Witness: Music, Memory, and Moving Forward,” where Pastors Frankie, right, and Jean Owens, left, of the Original First African Baptist Church, sang a selection of traditional African American spirituals. Now the coalition has revealed the proposed location of its marker acknowledging lynching and memorializing its local victims. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff
The Statesboro-Bulloch Remembrance Coalition has asked Statesboro’s mayor and council for permission to erect a marker next to City Hall memorializing the known victims of lynching in Bulloch County.
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