Salt Lake County Community Remembrance Project
From “Visit the Museum” by The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). 3 March 2022
Salt Lake County Community Remembrance Project
The Salt Lake County CRP is a coalition of community individuals and organizations with the shared goals of addressing the problems described by the Equal Justice Initiative.
The Salt Lake County Coalition’s objectives are:
To publicly remember the victims of racial terror (lynching);
To memorialize the victims and locations of these terror events;
To facilitate ongoing community discussion around racial terror, justice inequities, and other social inequities; and
To help establish legislative and municipal policies that address inequities and cure them.
Bringing Together the Salt Lake Community
The Community Remembrance Project (CRP) is an opportunity for community members to join efforts in making Salt Lake County and the state of Utah a better place to live for everyone. The conversations are difficult but necessary to bring about the unity and peace we all desire. We will do that through a series of "community conversations" and events. These are conversations we hope will enlighten and inform participants. Check out our events calendar to see all past and future events.
Racial Terror
“During the period between the Civil War and World War II, thousands of African Americans were lynched in the United States. Lynchings were violent and public acts of torture that traumatized Black people throughout the country and were largely tolerated by state and federal officials. These lynchings were terrorism. “Terror lynchings” peaked between 1880 and 1940 and claimed the lives of African American men, women, and children who were forced to endure the fear, humiliation, and barbarity of this widespread phenomenon unaided.”
- Equal Justice Initiative
Meet the Coalition
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Robert S. Burch, Jr.
Executive Director, Sema Hadithi
Salt Lake County, Utah -
James Tabery
Professor, University of Utah
Salt Lake County, Utah -
Oscar T. Moses
Paster, Calvary Missionary Baptist Church
Salt Lake County, Utah -
Betty Sawyer
President, NAACP Ogden Branch
Weber County, Utah -
A. Jerome Christophe
Social Worker
SLC Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.
Salt Lake County, Utah -
Shawn Newell
Director, Utah Multicultural Civic Council
Salt Lake County, Utah -
Barbara Jones Brown
Executive Director, Mormon History Association
Summit County, Utah
