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RIGHT NOW AT FIVE. CHERRY TREES ARE GOING TO MEAN SO MUCH MORE AT LYNN PARK. THE CHERRY TREE PROJECT PLANTED THEIR FIRST TREE THERE TODAY IN HONOR OF AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO WERE LYNCHED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. WVTM13’S BRYCE OSELEN WAS THERE, AND BRYCE, THIS TREE PLANTED TODAY IS IN HONOR OF ONE VICTIM IN PARTICULAR. YEAH. GLADYS. THIS TREE WAS PLANTED TO HONOR LOUIS HOUSTON, WHO WAS LYNCHED IN 1883. HOUSTON WAS LYNCHED HERE IN BIRMINGHAM AFTER HE WAS ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING A WHITE WIDOW. NOW THE BLACK CHERRY TREE PROJECT WAS FOUNDED IN 2020. IN THE WAKE OF GEORGE FLOYD’S DEATH. THIS TREE IS THE FIRST OF 33 TO BE PLANTED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. PLANTERS SAY THE PROJECT ALLOWS PEOPLE IN THE CITY TO LEARN ABOUT THE PAST AS THEY PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE. TELLING THE TRUTH AND PRESERVING THESE STORIES AND THIS HISTORY, THEN THAT CAN HELP THE NEXT GENERATIONS UP AND THE GENERATIONS AFTER THEM TO, YOU KNOW, FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED SO THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO, TO MAKE THINGS BETTER. THE ORGANIZATION HOPES TO RECEIVE MORE FUNDING TO PLANT MORE TREES.
Tree planted in Birmingham park as living memorial to lynching victims
A tree planting took place in Birmingham to remember a lynching that happened more than 140 years ago.Folks with the "Power of Us" Cultural Organizing Summit planted a black cherry tree in Linn Park, Sunday, Oct. 6.The organizers say the tree is a living memorial in honor of Lewis Houston, a man lynched in 1883.The tree ceremony wrapped up the "Power of Us" summit, which brought together people to explore ways to use art for activism, community collaboration, and building multiracial democracy.This tree is planned to be the first of 33 trees to be planted in Jefferson County as part of a mission to remember lynching victims.Coming Together: Black History in Alabama
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —
A tree planting took place in Birmingham to remember a lynching that happened more than 140 years ago.
Folks with the "Power of Us" Cultural Organizing Summit planted a black cherry tree in Linn Park, Sunday, Oct. 6.
The organizers say the tree is a living memorial in honor of Lewis Houston, a man lynched in 1883.
The tree ceremony wrapped up the "Power of Us" summit, which brought together people to explore ways to use art for activism, community collaboration, and building multiracial democracy.
This tree is planned to be the first of 33 trees to be planted in Jefferson County as part of a mission to remember lynching victims.
Coming Together: Black History in Alabama
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