![]() ![]() The first was the city of LaGrange, where the white police chief in 2017 apologized for the role his department played in a 1940 death of a black teenager and a marker was placed at a church that led anti-lynching protests. The county is also in the process of adding a new element just steps away: a second marker that would highlight the impact of lynchings and other acts of racial terrorism.ĭeKalb is believed to be just the second government entity in Georgia to acknowledge the lynchings that occurred within its borders. ![]() ![]() Now, they are focused on putting that structure into context within a much wider discussion about racism and the effects it has had on DeKalb, a community where more than half of its 756,000 residents are African-American.Ī sign that identifies the Confederate monument as an attempt to honor "white supremacy and faulty history" is in the works. It is dedicated to Confederate soldiers "of a covenant keeping race."Ĭounty and city leaders have tried to move the monument from such a visible location, but state law limits their options. In Decatur, DeKalb's county seat, a 30-foot tall monument towers over the town square. Here, conversations about racial injustice increased after a woman was killed during a protest over Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Va. That effort began after 2015’s deadly church shooting in Charleston, S.C., prompted new attention to monuments that promote ideals of white supremacy. The result has revealed to a family of one of the men, and to the organizers of these remembrance events, horrific details forgotten until now.ĭeKalb County and some of its cities have joined a national movement to confront America’s history of racism in a more honest and complete manner. The details of these incidents are receiving new attention today as a result of those efforts and additional reporting by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. DeKalb is bringing that effort home through a series of events dedicated to acknowledging that history but also to atoning for it. The names and dates of these incidents were made public as part of a new memorial in Montgomery dedicated to highlighting the impact of racial terror in America. ![]()
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