John Buckner Soil Collection Ceremony
A community event remembering the January 1894 lynching of John Buckner. We will collect soil from the site of the lynching and place the soil in jars provided by the Equal Justice Initiative. These jars of soil will be displayed in various memorial exhibits: in EJI’s Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, at the Griot Museum here in St Louis, and in the Missouri Community Remembrance Project Exhibit at the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City, MO.
When: January 17, 2022 11:00am
Where: Lower Buder Park, 101 Larkin Williams Rd, Valley Park, MO 63088.
The ceremony will be held near the archery range in the northwest corner of the park, near the banks of the Meramec River.
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