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We are a community driven initiative working to reconcile racial terror violence in our community.

08/29/2026

Your voice matters.

If you're a Lee County high school student who cares about your community and wants to make a difference, the Youth Leadership Institute is for you!

✅ Meet other students from across Lee County�

✅ Explore local history and racial justice�

✅ Develop leadership skills�

✅ Help shape projects that create positive change

⏰ Applications close August 31.

🔗 Learn more and apply at leecountyremembrance.org

08/26/2026

Lee County high school students: your voice matters!

Applications are open for the Lee County Remembrance Project’s Youth Leadership Institute, a program designed for students who want to learn about local history, racial justice, community engagement, and how collective action can create meaningful change. Participants will have the opportunity to explore Lee County's history, engage in important conversations, develop leadership skills, and contribute to projects that help build a more informed and inclusive community.

✅ Open to high school students in Lee County

✅ Connect with peers who care about making a difference

✅ Gain leadership experience and learn from community leaders

Applications are due August 31!

🔗 Learn more and apply at leecountyremembrance.org

08/24/2026

Are you a high school student in Lee County?

Want to learn more about local history, racial justice, and ways to make a positive impact in your community?

Apply for the new Lee County Remembrance Project Youth Leadership Institute!

Through hands-on learning, discussion, and community engagement, you’ll build leadership skills and learn how collective action can create meaningful change.

📅 Application deadline: August 31

🔗 Learn more and apply at www.leecountyremembrance.org

08/10/2026

August is here, and Carrying Memory Forward is entering its final month.

Two reasons to give this week:

🎁 Every gift of $50 or more comes with a free LCRP t-shirt — a thank-you gift you can't get anywhere else!

💵 GiveButter, our online giving platform, is matching 5% on all donations to Black-led nonprofits this month, which means your gift goes even further!

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

And, did you catch our exciting news last week? Applications are now open for our brand new Youth Leadership Institute! If you know a 9th-12th grade student in Lee County ready to learn, lead, and carry this work forward, send them to www.leecountyremembrance.org or reach out to [email protected]

07/28/2026

LCRP is excited to announce the first annual Youth Leadership Institute. High school students in Lee County who are interested in racial justice within our community are encouraged to apply to the first cohort. All cohort members will receive a $500 stipend for their participation! Learn more at https://www.leecountyremembrance.org/youth-leadership-institute

07/10/2026

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

07/09/2026

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

07/08/2026

This is what remembrance looks like in practice: people standing together, in public, in front of a marker that tells a story our community once tried to bury.

Every gathering like this is an act of truth-telling. Every young person in that photo is someone who now carries this history forward too.

That's exactly what our Youth Leadership Institute is designed to grow — a new generation of truth-tellers.

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

07/07/2026

Samford Hall has stood at the center of Auburn for well over a century. Generations have walked past it without knowing the full history of the county it sits in.

Carrying memory forward doesn't mean tearing down what's familiar — it means telling the whole story of the places we love.

This summer, give to help us bring that history to a new generation through our new Youth Leadership Institute.

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

07/06/2026

Read those headlines again.

This is the language that was used to justify murder — printed in local papers, read at breakfast tables, treated as ordinary news. Words like this didn't just describe racial terror lynchings; they excused it.

Part of our work is going back into these archives and telling the truth about what they reveal — about our community, and about ourselves.

Our new research booklet will carry that truth further than ever.
You can help us fund its publication with your gift today.

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

Address

PO Box 604
Opelika, AL
36803

Website

http://www.leecountyremembrance.org/

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