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The Anderson Area Remembrance and Reconciliation Initiative is hoping 2022 is a year of progress.
Currently, mirroring the work of the national Equal Justice Initiative, the group is gathering soil samples at the sites of five lynching victims in Anderson County that took place during the Post-Reconstruction Era of 1894-1911.
Plans are to work with the county on a marker dedicated to the memory of the victims and their families.
The local reconciliation group includes City of Anderson Mayor Terence Roberts, Anderson County Administrator Rusty Burns, the Dr. Rev. Ankoma Anderson of Welfare Baptist Church, John Miller, Stuart Sprague and Director, Diversity & Language Services at AnMed Health Juana Slade.
Original story from March 2021 here.
Dr. Anderson updated the project and plans for the months ahead in this March 10 interview with the Anderson Observer.