Manasota Remembers: The Soil Ceremony
Saturday, November 9, 2024
10:00am
Unitarian Universalists of Sarasota
3975 Fruitville Rd, Sarasota 34232

The Sarasota & Manatee Community Remembrance Project is dedicated to honoring the lives lost to racial terror lynching in our community.

As part of this effort, we invite you to join us for The Soil Ceremony to remember six men – Henry Thomas, Sam Ellis, Wade Ellis, Mr. Ruddy, William English, and James Franklin – who were murdered in the Manasota area between 1903 and 1934.

​Soil collected from the sites where these men died will be transferred by community members into glass vessels to be held in remembrance. The jars will serve as a lasting tribute to their lives and a reminder of the injustices they suffered.

This community remembrance event is free and
open to the public.

Space is limited; reservations are required. 
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