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Episcopal clergy urge local research and memorialization after pilgrimage to Equal Justice Initiative sites
Summary
Reverend Adam Shoemaker described a pilgrimage to Montgomery and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and said Charleston and Berkeley counties are not represented on the memorial’s lynching listings; the commission discussed possible city engagement to research local incidents.
Reverend Adam Shoemaker told the commission that members of three Episcopal congregations traveled to Montgomery, Ala., to visit sites organized by the Equal Justice Initiative, including the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, and that the trip prompted questions about local memorialization.
Shoemaker said 45 people from his congregations, led by the diocese, went to Montgomery and worshiped at Brown Chapel AME Church, the historic site associated with the civil-rights march. He said the preacher at Brown Chapel that morning was…
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