Community Contributions

The Montevallo Community Remembrance Coalition Project Coalition is dedicated to helping our local community learn more about the history and legacy of lynching and racial violence in Montevallo and across the United States.

We realize that this is a community effort and we would like to encourage everyone to contribute to this website to help us better understand this history and its implications for our present-day society.

If you are interested in contributing, please use the following form to send in your submission(s): Montevallo Community Remembrance Project Community Submission Form

A city’s past re-examined: Montevallo partakes in Community Remembrance Project(Left to right) Kathy King, Debra Harton Love, Kathy Lowe, and Amanda Melcher led the discussion. Photo by Jasmine Baxter “Until very recently, lynching was something I knew about from photographs,…

Thoughts on Montevallo’s new historic marker about a lynchingThe marker will tell the story of the lynching of two black men by a mob in 1889 in the heart of the town that I have come to love.This is not an easy story to tell. But it is a true story and it is necessarily told.

Memorial service held at EJI marker in Montevallo - Shelby County ReporterCommunity members gathered near the site of Montevallo’s recently installed Equal Justice Initiative historical marker on Saturday, Aug. 29 to remember the victims of a lynching that occurred in the city in 1889.

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