Upcoming Events
John Buckner Historical Marker
TBD, Expected Fall/Winter 2023
We will work with local community leaders and Equal Justice Initiative to erect a historical marker acknowledging the lynching of John Buckner near the site where it happened, near the Route 141 bridge over the Meramec River.
Francis McIntosh Historical Marker
TBD, Expected Fall/Winter 2023
We will work with local community leaders and Equal Justice Initiative to erect a historical marker acknowledging the lynching of Francis McIntosh near the site where it happened, in present-day Kiener Plaza Park.
Past Events
A public ceremony commemorating the lynching of Francis McIntosh in the vicinity of the site where Mr. McIntosh was lynched in 1836. Coalition and community speakers will reflect on the lynching and how that event and those that followed are still affecting the present. Attendees will fill glass jars with soil, to be displayed in various memorial exhibits: in EJI’s Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, at the Griot Museum here in St Louis, and in the Missouri Community Remembrance Project Exhibit at the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City, MO.
A community event remembering the January 1894 lynching of John Buckner. We collected soil from the site of the lynching and placed the soil in jars provided by the Equal Justice Initiative. These jars of soil will be displayed in various memorial exhibits: in EJI’s Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, at the Griot Museum here in St Louis, and in the Missouri Community Remembrance Project Exhibit at the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City, MO.
The event program is archived here: Event Program for January 17, 2022 John Buckner Soil Collection
Francis McIntosh Vigil
April 28, 2021
The McIntosh Remembrance committee held a small community remembrance & candlelight vigil in Kiener Plaza, in the vicinity of his abduction and lynching on that date in 1836. The coalition chose to hold a small private event in light of the pandemic and other safety concerns. The event included a reading by Cheeraz Gorman of the Requiem for Francis McIntosh prepared by Cory Lovell, brief reflections on the history of the event and the work of the coalition, and a silent vigil.