Lee County Remembrance Project

We started this campaign with A Seat at the Table: A Juneteenth Breakfast to Carry Memory Forward. Our thoughts that morning centered on the idea that freedom has to travel. It can't just be proclaimed — it has to be carried, person to person, generation to generation.

That star bursting across the Juneteenth flag represents a freedom that arrived late, and unevenly, and is still arriving in places today.

This is the final day of our week of reflection — but the campaign to Carry Memory Forward continues all summer. We need $9,500 to reach our goal and fund a new Youth Leadership Institute and a research booklet that will carry this work forward for years to come.

Every gift moves freedom a little further. Give today: https:www.leecountyremembrance.org/give

This courthouse has seen it all — trials that delivered justice, and moments when justice never had a chance to begin.

Buildings hold memory whether we acknowledge it or not. Our work is about making sure the stories these walls witnessed don't stay buried in silence.

Your gift this summer helps fund the research that brings those stories to light.

Make your gift today: https://www.leecountyremembrance.org/give

This jar holds soil gathered from the ground where Samuel Harris was lynched in 1902.

It's not just a symbol. It's the actual earth containing the blood, sweat, and tears that witnessed what happened. Soil collection is part of how communities across the country are refusing to let these stories disappear into silence.

We say his name - and John Moss, and George Hart, and Charles Humphries, and Charles Miller, and Forney Calhoun, and Otis Gray - because for too long, no one did.

Help us carry their memory forward — support LCRP's brand new Youth Leadership Institute and an updated edition of our research booklet this summer.

Give today: https://www.leecountyremembrance.org/give