The Reparative Justice Coalition of St. Louis is working with Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) to develop a Community Remembrance Project in St. Louis.

We are beginning with remembrance of the 1894 lynching of John Buckner and the 1836 lynching of Francis McIntosh.

John Buckner was a descendant of one the first free Black families to settle in St. Louis County. He was abducted by a mob and hung from a railroad bridge over the Meramec River. No one was punished for the lynching. To learn more about this historic injustice and for remembrance project updates, please visit:

Francis McIntosh was a free black man from Pittsburgh, in St. Louis as a river boat worker, where he was the victim of a racial terror lynching in the vicinity of the Old Courthouse. No one was punished for the lynching. To learn more about this historic injustice and for remembrance project updates, please visit:

The St. Louis Community Remembrance Project (CRP) will organize a series of remembrance events to acknowledge this injustice, and many others, and to constructively address their legacies in our community.