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Boro council gives go-ahead for lynchings memorial marker
EJI, working with local coalitions, has installed markers in 6 Georgia counties before Bulloch
Adrianne McCollar, one of the two Statesboro-Bulloch Remembrance Coalition co-chairs, holds a copy of the front page of the Aug. 30, 1904, Savannah Morning News as she speaks to Statesboro City Council on Feb. 21, 2023. Page 1 of the Savannah paper 118 ye
Adrianne McCollar, one of the two Statesboro-Bulloch Remembrance Coalition co-chairs, holds a copy of the front page of the Aug. 30, 1904, Savannah Morning News as she speaks to Statesboro City Council on Feb. 21, 2023. Page 1 of the Savannah paper 118 years ago contained a report of the lynching of Sebastian McBride at Portal in Bulloch County, as well as stories about the mob murder of another Black man at Fitzgerald, Georgia, and a lynching in Wyoming. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
Statesboro City Council by a 4-0 vote Tuesday evening granted the Statesboro-Bulloch Remembrance Coalition permission to erect a historical marker next to City Hall memorializing the known nine known victims of lynching in Bulloch County.
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