Remembrance Rites and Soil Collection for Robert Mosely
Our community was honored to come together on November 12, 2022, to remember Robert Mosely, who was lynched in Madison County on March 21, 1890.
Collecting soil from the site of a lynching is an important act of remembrance that will continue the process of reconciliation.
One of the jars we collected on Nov. 12, 2022, will be displayed in Montgomery at the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. The other will find its home at Huntsville Revisited Museum (2007 North Memorial Parkway, Suite O, Huntsville, AL, United States, Alabama).
We believe these ceremonies are a step we must take to revisit past injustices - if we are serious about seeing racial healing in our county.
Thank you for your continued support.
Welcome: H. Jerome Glover, Angela Curry
Equal Justice Initiative Spokesperson: Lilli Spearman
Historical context: William Hampton
First Reader: Council Member John Meredith
Second Reader: Pastor TC Johnson
Musical Offering: Humble
Closing: David Person
Blessing: The Rev. Michael Goldsmith
Video production by Steven Jackson
Photography by Dennis Keim
Liturgy created by Rev. Michael Goldsmith
Special thanks to:
Honorable Corey D. Hawkins, Sr., Esq., Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall
Grand Lodge of the Jurisdiction of Alabama
Right Worshipful H. Jerome Glover, Grand District Deputy, District No. 17
Brother Erick Wade, the project lead for District 17 for this event
