“This Report Will Be Hard to Read:” Jefferson County Memorial Project Puts the Spotlight on Lynchings, and There’s More to Come. A collection of stories on the project from BW - BirminghamWatch
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“This Report Will Be Hard to Read:” Jefferson County Memorial Project Puts the Spotlight on Lynchings, and There’s More to Come. A collection of stories on the project from BW

  “This report will be hard to read:” Jefferson County Memorial Project Puts the Spotlight on Lynchings, and There’s More to Come         Researching Birmingham’s Lynchings was Disturbing, Eye-Opening for College Students Who Took on the Project                 How They Did It: College Students Were

February 27, 2019 by Virginia Martin
John Chandler was killed in a mob near what is now the Bright Star restaurant in Bessemer. (Source: Michael Clemmer)

 

“This report will be hard to read:” Jefferson County Memorial Project Puts the Spotlight on Lynchings, and There’s More to Come

 

 

 

 

Researching Birmingham’s Lynchings was Disturbing, Eye-Opening for College Students Who Took on the Project

Birmingham-area college students spent a lot of their time at the Linn-Henley Research Library after beginning to work on the JCMP report. (Source: Michael Clemmer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A mob of white men dragged Lewis Houston into what is now Linn Park and hanged him from a pine tree in 1883.  (Source: Michael Clemmer)

How They Did It: College Students Were Trained in Research Techniques to Tell the Stories of Jefferson County’s Lynching Victims

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jefferson County’s 30 Victims and Their Stories

What Qualified as a Lynching?

Read the Jefferson County Memorial Project’s Inaugural Report, “Jefferson County’s 30 Residents”

List of the JCMP Fellows and Advisers for the Jefferson County’s 30 Residents Report