By Loretta Fulton Amy Boone doesn’t see herself as an activist, but rather someone who is moved to action by injustice. Those actions might include showing up in person at a rally or event or a Facebook post. Most recently, she spearheaded the placement of a marker noting the site where Grover C. Everett was murdered by members of the
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Click here to read a story about a 2019 project commemorating the site of Grover Everett’s death. The Community Remembrance Project was sponsored by the Equal Justice Initiative to bring attention to the history of violence against Blacks. It involved gathering soil from the site of Everett’s murder to place in one-gallon jars for display in two museums. By Loretta
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By Loretta Fulton The installation of a historical marker noting the killing of a Black man at an Abilene hotel in 1922 will highlight Juneteenth observances in Abilene. The marker installation will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 20, at 334 Ash St. A reception will will follow at Curtis House Cultural Center, 630 Washington St. The marker was provided
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By LORETTA FULTON The jar containing soil from the site where Grover C. Everett was murdered in Abilene in 1922 might as well have held his ashes for the sacred way it was treated by a group of McMurry University students who recently took the glass vessel to a museum in Alabama. “That jar got carried like it was precious cargo,”
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By LORETTA FULTON Standing at the site of the 1922 murder of a black man at the hands of “masked and robed” men, Andrew Penns let it be known that despite the evil that took place there, God was in charge. At the beginning of the ceremony commemorating the death of Grover C. Everett, Penns, pastor of Valley View Missionary
Read moreBy LORETTA FULTON A ceremony commemorating the murder of a black man in Abilene in 1922 has been rescheduled for Saturday, April 27. The event will begin at 10 a.m. at 341 Ash. St., where Grover C. Everett of Sulphur Springs was shot to death at the Joe Davis Hotel for “negroes” on Saturday night, Sept. 9, 1922. According to
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By LORETTA FULTON A disturbing but significant piece of local history will be commemorated in a public ceremony April 13 when soil is collected to add to a national project marking the sites of lynchings in America. The event will begin at 10 a.m. at 341 Ash. St., where Grover C. Everett of Sulphur Springs was shot to death at the
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