The Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County
The Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County, SC, was formed in the spring of 2019 in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) work to bring the discussion of race and racial injustice in America into the forefront of our society.
EJI launched the Community Remembrance Project to help communities around the country to remember and address the legacy of slavery, lynching, and racial segregation that still impacts communities to this day.
The mission of the CRP is to honor the lives and memories of victims of racial terror and preserve the social memory of our local community by engaging in a more honest conversation about the history of racial injustice in Greenville County through restorative truth-telling and healing.
EJI has documented 4 victims of racial terror lynching in Greenville County, SC:
Robert Williams – November 4, 1881
Ira Johnson – July 15, 1895
Tom Keith – August 16, 1899
George Green – November 16, 1933
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The Power of Restorative Truth Telling
We are memorializing the four known victims of racial terror in Greenville County, SC. The only way to heal Greenville County’s racial wounds is to first acknowledge these traumatic events occurred. We cannot heal what we do not name.
Since 2019, the Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County has honored the lives of George Green, , Ira Johnson, Tom Keith, and Robert Williams—each a victim of racial terror lynching in our own community.
Acknowledging our past in order to heal racial wounds in Greenville County, SC
The Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County, SC was established to advance the work of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama to document the thousands of untold stories of racial terror lynchings throughout the United States.
