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Together, we bring the truth to light.
Together, we bring the truth to light.
Our vision is remembrance and reconciliation and respect for our city’s past; the merciful work of recognizing disparities in the way our city’s history has been celebrated; the loving work of exposing history that some have willfully forgotten.
The mission of the 1919 Longview Remembrance Project is to initiate a community effort to lament, repent, restore, and act.
We lament the history of some African-Americans in our community has been overlooked.
We call for collective repentance as we work to expose a series of racially-motivated incidents that took place in Longview, especially those which occurred during the Red Summer of 1919.
We undertake this as an effort to further existing racial reconciliation efforts and restore our community to a more peaceful, inclusive state.
We want to bring honor and peace to the forgotten by installing a historical marker to remember a troubling but vital aspect of our past, bringing home a memorial monument to people who were lynched in our county, and creating a documentary that chronicles these efforts and highlights oral histories from Longview’s citizens.
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