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is part of a national movement by the Equal Justice Initiative to tell the truth about racial terror lynchings in America, to understand how this violent history still shapes our lives today, and to help our community move toward reconciliation. WATCH THE FILM READ THEIR STORIES LISTEN TO POETRY DECLARE YOUR SUPPORT 'Haunted by our history' Listen to Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson on America's need to recover from the legacy of violence and racial terrorism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOuxCS37Svk The stories Mr. Joseph McNeely Mr. Joseph McNeely New details about how Joe McNeely was allowed to be lynched in 1913 — where the NFL Panthers play today Mr. Willie McDaniel Mr. Willie McDaniel The mystery, nearly a century old, of the 1929 lynching of Willie McDaniel. in the area of today’s Reedy Creek Park Why now? Why now? It’s time to face our past: For too long, we have not faced all that Charlotte, and Mecklenburg, have been How it started How it started The Remembrance Project began with bus trips to the lynching memorial, which offered horror — and a challenge It Happened Here: Poetry It Happened Here: Poetry Listen to spoken word poet Hannah Hasan perform “It Happened Here,” three pieces commissioned by the CMRP The cost of lynching threats The cost of lynching threats She discovered that a single photograph reveals the price her family paid when threatened with lynchings