Lawrence/Douglas County Community Remembrance Project Coalition

12/11/2023

The CRP Coalition has had great success with the Soil Collection Ceremony in 2021, the Lynching Marker Dedication in 2022, and the Margret "Sis" Vinegar Marker Dedication in 2023, but our work is far from over. There is much racial injustice and violence in the history of Douglas County that needs to be addressed; addressed in order to help heal the generational trauma that resulted from those events in order to bring peace and reconciliation for all of us, and to make certain that such events never happen again. These are the goals that the members of the CRP Coalition are working on, and we can use the help of everyone. If you are interested in joining our efforts, contact us at [email protected].

07/19/2023

Thank you to everyone who was able to participate in the marker dedication for Margaret Vinegar on June 10th, 2023. Attached is a video of the ceremony.

A recording of the dedication of the Margaret "Sis" Vinegar Historical Marker Memorial Dedication on June 10, 2023. The Douglas County Community Rememberance...

09/14/2022

06/12/2022

https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2022/jun/10/community-gathers-to-honor-three-black-men-on-140-year-anniversary-of-lawrence-lynching/

In 1882, a mob of about 100 white men took Pete Vinegar, Isaac King and George Robertson from their jail cells and lynched them from the Kansas River bridge. But on Friday, 140 years to the day since the lynching, a different kind of crowd gathered. On the bank of the Kansas River, with a […]

06/12/2022

https://lawrencekstimes.com/2022/06/10/marker-dedication-pays-tribute/

A ceremony Friday on the north side of Lawrence City Hall honored the lives and memory of three Black men who were murdered by a white mob atop the Kansas River bridge on June 10, 1882.

06/12/2022

Recording of Dr. Brent Campney's June 9, 2022, talk on “Anti-Black Violence in Lawrence and Kansas during the Long Reconstruction,” presented as part of the events surrounding the dedication of the marker memorializing the lynching of three men, Isaac King, George Robertson, and Peter Vinegar, from the Kansas River Bridge in Lawrence, Kansas, on June 10, 1882.

Lawrence Public Library, in partnership with the Lawrence - Douglas County Community Remembrance Project, is pleased to host author Brent Campney, author of ...

06/07/2022

Installation of the lynching marker just west of Lawrence City Hall was completed around 2:00 p.m. today. The dedication ceremony will be there at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, June 10th. Please come.

05/12/2022

03/25/2022

Passage of the legislation to make lynching a federal crime is a major milestone after more than 200 attempts to pass such legislation failed over the course of a century.