{"id":5619,"date":"2017-05-22T18:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T23:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2017-05-22T18:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T23:23:24","slug":"god-lynching-and-the-role-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2017\/05\/god-lynching-and-the-role-of-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"God, Lynching and the Role of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"ell<\/a>On May 21, 2017, the Lynching Sites Project of Memphis, in commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of the Lynching of Ell Persons conducted a dedication of a marker along with an Interfaith Prayer Ceremony. Leading up to the commemoration, R3 published several posts that spoke about the horrific lynching of Ell Persons in particular but also posts about lynching and racialized violence more broadly. We link these posts below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0The Lynching of Ell Persons<\/a><\/p>\n

On March 23, 2017, I gave a speech at Central High School in Memphis, Tennessee. In the speech below, I talked about the lynching of Ell Persons in Memphis, Tennessee on May 22, 1917. \u00a0The speech was in conjunction with the\u00a0<\/em>Lynching Sites Project of Memphis<\/a>; \u201ca growing network of organizations and congregations of faith in order to acknowledge our shared history of racial violence and our ongoing resolve for racial justice and racial healing.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Good Friday and the Lynching of Ell Persons<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch as\u00a0<\/em>Broderick Greer<\/a>\u00a0connect the lynching of\u00a0Mr. Ell Persons<\/a>, 99 years ago in Memphis, Tennessee to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the present-day brutality of marginalized people.<\/em><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u201cIs this Hell\u201d: The Mass Murder of Blacks During (Post) Reconstruction<\/a><\/p>\n

Below is a presentation I gave on February 16, 2017 at the\u00a0Violence and Memory: Memorializing Historical Traumas from the Holocaust to the Jim Crow South<\/a>\u00a0symposium at the University of Memphis.<\/em> In the presentation, I offered a rhetorical history and trajectory of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner\u2019s rhetoric in chronicling, describing and detailing racialized violence against African Americans. Starting in the early days of Reconstruction and lasting throughout his life, through his many editorials, letters, speeches, interviews and essays, Turner shared stories and eyewitness accounts of the brutality that many African Americans faced during the nineteenth century. His writings serve as a reminder of just how brutal the (post) reconstruction era was and in many ways, how we are still living that brutal legacy today.<\/em><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0The State Sponsored Violence against Black Bodies<\/a><\/p>\n

Below is part of a speech I gave for the Center for African & African American Studies at LeMoyne-Owen College for the twenty-third Annual Middle Passage Commemoration on September 7, 2016. They held the event at Metropolitan Baptist Church and the title of the event was\u00a0\u201cFrom the Middle Passage to the Memphis Massacre of 1866.\u201d I thank Dr.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Femi<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>I.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Ajanaku and the wonderful students at LeMoyne-Owen College for the invitation. The full title of my talk that day was<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u201cThe State Sponsored Violence Against Black Bodies: The Middle Passage, The Memphis Massacre and Beyond.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Burned Alive: The Lynch Murder, Mutilation and Mayhem of Ell Persons<\/a><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, April 12 the\u00a0American Inns of Court\u00a0<\/a>in Memphis, Tennessee invited me and other members of the\u00a0Lynching Sites Project<\/a>\u00a0to come and share the story of the lynching of Ell Persons. Attorney\u00a0Carla Peacher-Ryan<\/a>\u00a0and Dr.\u00a0Tom Carlson<\/a>\u00a0promoted the work we do in the recovering of lynching sites in Shelby County, while Dr.\u00a0Margaret Vandiver<\/a>\u00a0discussed the broader implications of the Persons lynching. I had the task of giving a speech detailing Persons lynching and the aftermath. *Special thanks to\u00a0Judge Jennie Davidson Latta<\/a>\u00a0for arranging our visit.\u00a0My speech is below. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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