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‘Bulloch Bears Witness’ acknowledges lynching and legacy of racial violence
Coalition launches campaign of remembrance, atonement
pastors Frankie and Jean Owens of the Original First African Baptist Church pay tribute to African American spiritual music during the “Bulloch Bears Witness: Music, Memory, and Moving Forward” program hosted by the Statesboro-Bulloch Remembrance Coalitio
Pastors Frankie and Jean Owens of the Original First African Baptist Church pay tribute to African American spiritual music during the “Bulloch Bears Witness: Music, Memory, and Moving Forward” program hosted by the Statesboro-Bulloch Remembrance Coalition and Equal Justice Initiative at Georgia Southern University's Carter Recital Hall Wednesday, Jan. 4.
Lynched in Bulloch County: Jake Braswell, July 15, 1886; Kennedy Gordon, April 11, 1901; Paul Reed and William Cato, Aug. 16, 1904; Albert Roberts and another Black person, name unknown, Aug. 17, 1904; Sebastian McBride, Aug. 27, 1904; Thompson Gilbert, Feb. 18, 1908; Henry Jackson, April 21, 1911.
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