https://www.rjcstl.org/events daily 0.75 2020-10-06 https://www.rjcstl.org/events/event-one-8jrtr monthly 0.5 2024-08-14 https://www.rjcstl.org/home daily 1.0 2026-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1593637347950-IFPMSZBR4J4ZQ32E1RSG/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1593637806040-QKI29WY95OMWVTUS3S7C/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1593638054048-BIXX6MQMT7EZ7940MBQ4/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1601750299964-NW4ADFIG44QOSDV2O2O8/1280px-Pruitt-Igoe_1968March03.jpg Home Aerial view of Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex, 1968 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/a9074fb1-28be-41f1-b902-03024c0b78a3/John+Buckner+Invite+%2815+x+21+in%29.png Home - John Buckner Soil Collection Ceremony On January 17, 2022 the St. Louis Community Remembrance Project held a Soil Collection Ceremony in remembrance of the lynching of John Buckner on January 17, 1894. The ceremony was held at Lower Buder Park, near the banks of the Meramec River, in the vicinity of the historic bridge (since replaced) where this racial terror lynching occurred. Learn more about the ceremony, view the program, EJI remembrance, and photographs at the page below. https://www.rjcstl.org/about daily 0.75 2025-08-19 https://www.rjcstl.org/contact-us daily 0.75 2020-11-29 https://www.rjcstl.org/get-involved daily 0.75 2023-06-04 https://www.rjcstl.org/donate daily 0.75 2020-10-04 https://www.rjcstl.org/plannedevents daily 0.75 2025-11-14 https://www.rjcstl.org/francis-mcintosh-remembrance daily 0.75 2022-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1601778509958-2SWUIBCUDI9NW77PTL9I/Burning_of_McIntosh.jpg Francis McIntosh Remembrance - Make it stand out An unknown artist’s depiction of the scene of the burning of Francis McIntosh (Source: Illustrations of the American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1840) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/8c5c73f4-ecd0-429a-a6e8-7c5e6981eb08/Handbill+for+Eagle+Steamboat+-+Duncan+Island.png Francis McIntosh Remembrance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/953c52f2-9ab3-4b2a-8cd8-5a126b411c17/CRP+McIntosh+Soil+Collection.jpeg Francis McIntosh Remembrance - In preparation for the April 30 ceremony Coalition volunteer Lloyd Klinedinst and Great Rivers Greenway Operations Supervisor Sarah Olmstead assist in gathering soil near the 1836 lynching site at the intersection of 7th and Chestnut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/3210e7d9-9c27-4eaf-bb3d-3c1664229259/All+Photos+-+1+of+1.jpeg Francis McIntosh Remembrance - Make it stand out Francis McIntosh Soil Collection Ceremony, April 30, 2022, in Kiener Plaza across from the Old Courthouse. https://www.rjcstl.org/st-louis-crp daily 0.75 2025-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1601787029202-ASIIJD3PB35GB5J45K6S/wua00118_Gellhorn_fairmap1904_03_11003.jpg St. Louis CRP - The Reparative Justice Coalition supports and partners with related projects across our city, region and state, including the Missouri Community Remembrance Project, a statewide effort to reckon with histories and legacies of racial terror. https://www.rjcstl.org/partners daily 0.75 2020-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1608485292192-464N62EUKGT8E0PMJVA4/eji-logo.png Partners - Equal Justice Initiative The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. RJCSTL is proud to partner with EJI’s Community Remembrance Project, working to memorialize documented victims of racial violence and foster meaningful dialogue about race and justice in the St Louis region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1608483849080-BTTBW3UUFWPLCSXO29CV/qt%3Dq_95.png Partners - Community Remembrance Project of Missouri CRP-MO works in partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative and CRP coalitions across the state of Missouri to recognize the victims of lynching. They plan to collect 60 jars of soil from lynching sites across the state, erect historical markers, and create a permanent soil exhibit in Kansas City acknowledging the statewide horrors of racial injustice. RJCSTL is proud to partner in this work of reparative justice. https://www.rjcstl.org/our-organization daily 0.75 2020-11-25 https://www.rjcstl.org/organizers daily 0.75 2024-08-31 https://www.rjcstl.org/mcintosh-4282021-registration daily 0.75 2021-04-07 https://www.rjcstl.org/requiem-for-francis-mcintosh daily 0.75 2021-05-02 https://www.rjcstl.org/john-buckner-remembrance daily 0.75 2026-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1643208860817-WJ2J7DSYPWAIIVDC0K4D/IMG_1786.jpg John Buckner Remembrance - Soil Collection Ceremony On January 17, 2022 the coalition held a Soil Collection Ceremony remembering the January 17, 1894 lynching of John Buckner in Valley Park. more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/5da7f16b-d4ef-4879-b2c1-97ff4503c1c1/Buckner-NoInvestigation-STLPD1894.jpg John Buckner Remembrance - Make it stand out January 18, 1894 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article announcing there would be no investigation of the lynching of John Buckner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/66960963-37f0-4de1-970a-70fd42eb6e12/IMG_5325.jpeg John Buckner Remembrance In October 2025 RJCSTL unveiled this historical marker acknowledging the lynching of John Buckner near the site where it happened: where the Route 141 bridge crosses the Meramec River. After Valley Park officials refused to allow the coalition to install the marker at a preferred location along the more accessible and secure greenway across the river, St. Louis County Parks accepted the marker donation from the coalition and facilitated its installation in near the archery fields in Lower Buder Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1ddbf7f2-b76d-466d-b810-55c1e8d89800/buckner_lynching_crowd_next_morning.png John Buckner Remembrance - Make it stand out Illustration of the scene of the lynching the morning after (Source: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Jan. 18, 1894, p. 12). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/871fecff-aa39-4632-bfb0-e6d498a3f55a/buckner_lynching_site_2021-02-12.jpg John Buckner Remembrance - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.rjcstl.org/buckner-jan-17-program daily 0.75 2022-01-17 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The Community Soil Collection Project gathers soil at lynching sites for display in haunting exhibits bearing victims’ names. These projects and the other engagement efforts that community coalitions develop intend to, “center the African American experience of racial injustice, empower African American community members who have directly borne this trauma, and invite the entire community to use truth to give voice to those experiences and expose their legacies.” The jars of soil collected at this ceremony will become part of memorial exhibits at EJI’s Legacy Museum in Montgomery, at the Griot Museum in St. Louis, and in the Missouri Community Remembrance Project Exhibit at the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City, MO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/9cd7d30d-4c52-45b2-8218-319562b23dea/IMG_6342.jpg John Buckner Soil Collection Ceremony - The Ceremony The ceremony was held at Lower Buder Park, near the banks of the Meramec River, in the vicinity of the historic bridge (since replaced) where this racial terror lynching occurred. Around two-hundred people braved the frigid winter temperatures and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to join the coalition in remembering this historic lynching and its legacies in our region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/eacc924a-f19b-4b54-9b8d-f8f6a7a8bbad/9E2CE021-2AF4-4033-929B-8D841A4CEA2C.jpg John Buckner Soil Collection Ceremony - Special Thanks This remembrance event would not have been possible without the organizing efforts of the Reparative Justice Coalition and several individuals and groups in particular. Special thanks to: Margaret Holly, Nathan Schrenk, Meg Galindo and other coalition members on the Buckner Remembrance planning committee, and to coalition members and ceremony co-hosts Geoff Ward and Michelle Smith; to Tom Ott (Director) and Guinn Hinman (Historic Site Manager) and others who provided support through St. Louis County Parks; to our featured speakers and presenters: Dr. Sam Page, St. Louis County Executive; Wesley Bell, St. Louis County Prosecutor; Blake Strode, Exec. Director of ArchCity Defenders; Lois Conley, coalition member and founding director of the Griot Museum; Joyce Bell, Director of the Office of Racial Harmony for the Archdiocese of St. Louis; and Patty McMullen-Hellwig and Jeff Schulenberg from the Sacred Heart Valley Park Peace & Justice Ministry; and finally our coalition partners with the Community Remembrance Project of Missouri and Equal Justice Initiative. https://www.rjcstl.org/mcintosh-soil daily 0.75 2022-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/328b26a0-f185-4fca-b6c7-398a4787217f/McIntosh+Flyer+%288.5+%C3%97+11+in%29.png RSVP - Francis McIntosh Soil Collection April 30, 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.rjcstl.org/mcintosh-apr-30-program daily 0.75 2022-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Program - Apr 30 Francis McIntosh Soil Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Program - Apr 30 Francis McIntosh Soil Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/80f028cb-e891-4e9a-b99e-ebaa120672d4/kelly-sikkema-Ereoqdv5s48-unsplash.jpg Program - Apr 30 Francis McIntosh Soil Collection - Francis McIntosh Soil Collection April 30, 2022 | 9:00 a.m. Kiener Plaza, St Louis, MO https://www.rjcstl.org/projects daily 0.75 2022-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/0ac28b83-6186-4b67-a829-7beda50c2827/Old_Jail_STL1870.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1649954264563-8WNI46ICO04RSN2WR9W5/unsplash-image-An_j14lRl5k.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/1651605306319-PAFSNVOU9TFZ93ITCVYN/Screen_Capture_-_May_3__1_07_PM.png Projects https://www.rjcstl.org/essay-contest-2024 daily 0.75 2024-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/989d5862-de2f-4484-8208-164805da11b3/Essay+Writing+Contest+Poster_RJC2024_FINAL.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/0f010f83-2e39-419c-97b3-2fd506f25c58/2024-calendar-shopify-product-image-1_700x.png https://www.rjcstl.org/essay-contest-research-topics daily 0.75 2024-09-05 https://www.rjcstl.org/workshop-interest-form daily 0.75 2024-08-15 https://www.rjcstl.org/awards-ceremony daily 0.75 2025-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/a10a092a-5d8f-43a6-8ef6-9e0c06417940/Award+Ceremony+Program+P1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/7e0e586f-1930-45d8-8efb-98d121f00365/Award+Ceremony+Program+P2.jpg https://www.rjcstl.org/john-buckner-marker-dedication daily 0.75 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/ffd760f8-6f0d-4353-aaa4-651f73966407/buder_marker_location_map.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/4d351a83-6f35-465b-a320-04e9c87ca280/BucknerMarkerFlyer.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9f05adc9e985731e1fb3c4/b92cd6b6-2a43-4604-8e76-5556dbed4153/BucknerMarkerProgram.png