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APJMM embodies a statewide collaborative effort to acknowledge, and to learn from, our shared documented history of hundreds of incidents of extra-legal racial, political and religious violence and injustices, with the goal of creating meaningful avenues for transformative peace and restorative justice through truth-seeking and reconciliation.

MARY CHURCH TERRELL GARDEN

APJMM GOALS

(1) Creating a collection of soil samples from the most approximate locations of each documented site of racial, political, and religious violence and injustice (i.e., documented historical lynching, expulsions, cleansings, riots and massacres)

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OUR OWN BACK STORIES

“The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait for the result of the investigation—that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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SHOULDERS UPON WHICH WE STAND

Frederick Douglass

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

Minister Francis James Grimke

Judge Albion Winegar Tourgee

Timothy Thomas Fortune

William Monroe Trotter

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“The Struggle of the South” mural painted by Joe Jones at Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas, in 1935. The mural was fully restored in 2019 and is now housed at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Downtown campus.

MARY BURNETT TALBERT LIBRARY

Legislation Documents

“Now the other myth that gets around is the idea that legislation cannot really solve the problem and that it has no great role to play in this period of social change because you’ve got to change the heart and you can’t change the heart through legislation. You can’t legislate morals. The job must be done through education and religion. Well, there’s half-truth involved here. Certainly, if the problem is to be solved then in the final sense, hearts must be changed…”

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AN OUTRAGE

AN OUTRAGE is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. Filmed on-location at lynching sites in six states and bolstered by the memories and perspectives of descendants..

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NATIONAL DAY OF RACIAL HEALING

The responsibility belongs to all of us to participate in these honest, powerful, and moving experiences, and pursue this journey together..

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THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL

The National Memorial coming to the table for Peace and Justice is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved Black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans..

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