Event by Salt Lake County Community Remembrance Coalition, Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation, UTAH Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society and Ask Mama Alice
The Salt Lake County Community Remembrance Coalition of Sema Hadithi African American Heritage & Culture Foundation in collaboration and partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama will be hosting a SOIL COLLECTION CEREMONY at the sites of two racial lynchings that occurred in Salt Lake City.
On June 11th, 2022, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, local African American leaders and Utah elected officials will gather at the locations of the horrific murders of Mr. Thomas Coleman (1866) and Mr. William ("Sam Joe") Harvey (1883) to hold a Memorial Ceremony and collect soil from the sites.
The soil will be put into jars which will be sent to The National Memorial for Peace & Justice in Montgomery, Alabama to be displayed alongside the soil of other lynching victims.
We will gather at 10:00 am on Capitol Hill at 300 North and Main Street, near where Mr. Tom was murdered. After a Memorial Ceremony and Soil Collection Ceremony, we will march down the hill and congregate at the site where Mr. William was murdered at the corner of 100 South and State Street. There we will hold a second Soil Collection Ceremony and brief Memorial Ceremony.
The event is FREE and open to the public. Please join us and PARTICIPATE IN THE RESTORATIVE POWER OF TRUTH-TELLING.
From the film “Visit the Museum” by The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). 3 March 2022.