Lee County Remembrance Project

We highly recommend Six Dollar Cafe for all your catering needs!

We're so grateful for everyone who took time with us today to reflect on the truth of Juneteenth and look ahead to how we'll Carry Memory Forward with your help. We express our thanks to the LCRP Board of Directors, our keynote speaker Rep. Jeremy Gray, our caterers Six Dollar Cafe, and our host the Nonprofit Center of East Alabama. Special thanks to Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill for event support.

This morning launches a summer to Carry Memory Forward together. We need your help to launch a 6-month creative learning & action experience for young leaders. We have new stories of racial terror violence in Lee County that deserve to be told with a new edition of our research booklet. Please give today at www.leecountyremembrance.org/give

A Seat at the Table: A Juneteenth Breakfast to Carry Memory Forward

Grateful for the opportunity to share with WSFA-TV and Jasmine Williams TV about A Seat at the Table: A Juneteenth Breakfast to Carry Memory Forward coming this Friday!

Time is running out to get your tickets! Visit https://givebutter.com/a-seat-at-the-table-a-juneteenth-breakfast-to-carry-memory-forward-cc5m9q to get yours today.

Very excited to have Rep. Jeremy Gray join us on Juneteenth to share about what it means to carry freedom forward! Get your tickets now or check out ways to sponsor and support our work.

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A Seat at the Table A Juneteenth Breakfast to Carry Memory Forward

Today we remember.

On May 1, 1865, freed Black Americans in Charleston held what historians believe was the first Memorial Day — honoring the Union soldiers who died so they could be free. It was an act of love, grief, and defiance.

From that moment to Juneteenth — the day freedom was finally announced for all — the thread is the same: a people refusing to let the fight for justice be forgotten.

LCRP's A Seat at the Table: A Juneteenth Breakfast to Carry Memory Forward is our moment to honor that thread — and invest in the work ahead.

Reserve your seat or become a sponsor today at www.leecountyremembrance.org

Learn more about the historical roots of Memorial Day at this link from The Charleston Area Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life & History - https://chsasalh.com/2024/05/23/decoration-day-charlestons-gullah-community-honoring-the-fallen-first-memorial-day/

Image Credit: Martyrs of the Race Course, Decoration Day 1865 – Library of Congress and The Charleston Daily Courier, Tue, May 02, 1865