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rEmembering Elwood Higginbottom

Remembering Elwood Higginbottom,
a short film by Jonathan Smith (2019)

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NEWS ARTICLES

2024

• "Family Tree’s Branches Reconnect Through Research About Lynching” radio piece by Laura Kebede-Twumasi for WKNO, June 20, 2024

2023

• "Two Histories, One Future: The Legacy of Confederate Memorials and the Promise of Public Spaces" report by E Pluribus Unum and Public Religion Research Institute. LCRP is on page 38, but check out the work of so many other great orgs, too.

• “Stewarding Sacred History: Insights from the “Anti-Racism & Community-Based Memory” Workshop,” Indiana History Blog, March 10, 2023

2022

• “Community Dedicates Historical Marker on Courthouse Lawn in Lafayette County, Mississippi,” article by the Equal Justice Initiative, April 4, 2022

• "Community honors Lafayette County lynching victims, families,” Oxford Eagle, April 5, 2022

• “Marker honors memories of Lafayette County lynching victims,” Daily Journal, April 2, 2022

• “We must start by speaking their names”: Second lynching marker remembering Lafayette County lynching victims dedicated in emotional ceremony, The Daily Mississippian, April 4, 2022

• “Lynching marker dedication to take place Saturday,” The Daily Mississippian, March 31, 2022

• “Germany’s historical reckoning is a warning for the US,” Coda Story, March 30, 2022

• “Family of Mississippi lynching victim reacts to Emmett Till legislation,” ActionNews5, March 29, 2023

2021

• “Marker Unveiled on Courthouse Lawn in Lafayette County, Mississippi,” Equal Justice Initiative, October 29, 2021

• “Lynching Memorial Marker Placed on the Courthouse Lawn,” hottytoddy.com, September 17, 2021

• “Group Hopes to Raise Funds for Memorial Bench in Honor of Lynching Victim’s Late Son,” hottytoddy.com, May 26, 2021

• “Group honors 1893 Lafayette County lynching victim,” Oxford Eagle, Tuesday, May 11, 2021

• “Letter to the editor: Understanding the truth of lynching,” The Daily Mississippian, February 9, 2021

• “A Show Of Strength: Facing And Telling The Truth About Lynchings In Lafayette County,” Mississippi Free Press, February 8, 2021

• “Lynching memorial approved for Lafayette County Courthouse,” The Daily Mississippian, February 1, 2021

• “Lynching memorial approved for Lafayette County Courthouse lawn,” Oxford Eagle, January 21, 2021

• “Lafayette County approves lynching marker to be placed on courthouse lawn,” Daily Journal, January 19, 2021

• “Lafayette Supervisors Approve Lynching Memorialization Marker,” HottyToddy.com, January 19, 2021

• “‘Epilogue And Epitaph’: Oxford Attempts To Reconcile Legacy Of Racism And Lynchings,” Mississippi Free Press, January 11, 2021

2020

• “Supervisors delay vote on lynching marker for courthouse lawn,” Oxford Eagle, December 8, 2020

• “Lynching Marker Tabled After Supervisor Objects to One Name,” HottyToddy.com, December 8, 2020

• “Lafayette supervisors delay approval of lynching monument,” Daily Journal, December 8, 2020

• “Lafayette County group tells overlooked story of lynching victim,” Daily Journal, November 15, 2020

• “Unearthing And Confronting Oxford’s Lynching History With Rev. E.W. Higginbottom Sr.,” Mississippi Freed Press, May 19, 2020

2019

• “‘Land & Power’ summit creates ‘magical’ community connection through social practice art,” Mississippi Today, December 29. 2019

• “Board of Supervisors approves memorial in Oxford for past lynching victims,” The Daily Mississippian, September 26, 2019

• “Supervisors Approve Sending Application to Archives and History for Courthouse Marker,” HottyToddy.com, September 16, 2019

• “Plaque on Courthouse Lawn Proposed by Lynching Memorialization in Lafayette County Project,” Oxford Eagle, September 16, 2019

2018

• New York Times Magazine, A Lynching’s Long Shadow,
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/magazine/a-lynchings-long-shadow.html

• Newsweek, America's Lynching History: How the Equal Justice Initiative is Helping Counties Acknowledge Terrorism
  https://www.newsweek.com/equal-justice-initiative-lynching-memorials-bryan-stevenson-1233676?fbclid=IwAR2WabMFuBACWXKGac7MDgUuHEXA6Sodb8eEbpjNpljEuLrTL95UW8DRqsw

• Oxford Eagle, Elwood Higginbottom to be Honored with Historical Marker,
  https://m.oxfordeagle.com/2018/08/08/elwood-higginbottom-to-be-honored-with-historical-marker/

• Commercial Appeal, DNA matches Memphis family to 1935 Oxford lynching victim,
  https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/05/30/dna-matches-memphis-family-1935-oxford-lynching-victim/648564002/

• WREG TV, Mississippi county to put up marker about 1935 lynching,
  https://wreg.com/2018/08/28/mississippi-county-to-put-up-marker-about-1935-lynching/

• Oxford Eagle, Public meeting set for Higginbottom historic marker,
  https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2018/08/27/public-meeting-set-for-higginbottom-historic-marker/

• Associated Press, Mississippi county to put up marker about 1935 lynching,
  https://apnews.com/85d1f6cc001249c0892284e791d6edca

• hottytoddy.com, Marker Planned for North Lamar to Memorialize Lynching Victim,
  https://hottytoddy.com/2018/08/08/marker-planned-for-north-lamar-to-memorialize-lynching-victim/

• Oxford Citizen/Daily Journal, Community discusses memorialization of lynching victims,
  http://www.djournal.com/oxford/community-discusses-memorialization-of-lynching-victims/article_43fd4d3b-3413-5214-9fef-6529b6d81104.html

• hottytoddy.com, Lynching Memorialization to Hold Meeting on Marker Dedication, Essay Contest,
  https://hottytoddy.com/2018/08/27/lynching-memorialization-to-hold-meeting-on-marker-dedication-essay-contest/

• Vicksburg Post, North Mississippi county to put up marker about 1935 lynching, https://m.vicksburgpost.com/2018/08/27/north-mississippi-county-to-put-up-marker-about-1935-lynching-bnx/

• Oxford Eagle, “Family of man lynched in Lafayette County finds answers through William Winter Institute” June 3, 2018
  https://m.oxfordeagle.com/2018/06/03/lynching-in-lafayette-county-a-legacy/

• Oxford Citizen, “Family of Elwood Higginbottom visit site of lynching“ March 29, 2018
  https://www.djournal.com/oxford/family-of-elwood-higginbottom-visit-site-of-lynching/article_61f8a9f8-c9af-580c-9b92-e9e032e100fa.html

2017

• Oxford Eagle, Group archiving racially motivated murders,
  https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2017/05/30/group-archiving-racially-motivated-murders/