New Hanover County Community Remembrance Project

The New Hanover County Community Remembrance Project, in coordination with the Equal Justice Initiative of Montgomery, Alabama, knows the importance of recognizing victims, survivors, and descendants of racial terror violence and lynchings. Our work is to educate and provide truth about what led to the race massacre and coup in Wilmington on November 10, 1898, and to identify the legacy of that racial terror in the Black community in the present day. The NHCCRP completed a Soil Collection Project in November, 2021 that recognized the known and unknown victims of the 1898 massacre, and their identified descendants. We held a Racial Justice Essay contest in the 2022-23 school year, and will be conducting another contest in the 2024-25 school year. These essays explore the history of racial injustice in our nation and the legacy of this continued injustice today. We want our students to understand the complicated history of the United States. This has become more difficult due to efforts to ban historical books which reveal the difficult truth about the mistreatment of many sectors of humanity throughout the history of the United States. In 2024, the NHCCRP also will be creating a highway marker in Wilmington that memorializes the 1898 massacre and its legacy.