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Meeting Date: April 17, 2018
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Contact Name: Joy P. Wright Department Director: /'
Contact Number: 407-905-3100 x9-1530 City Manager:
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Subject: National Memorial for Peace and Justice—Mayor Johnson and HRDB Travel
Background Summary:
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening to the public on April 26, 2018, will become the nation's
first memorial dedicated to the legacy of people terrorized by lynching. Located in Montgomery, Alabama, the
memorial is set on a six-acre site, and uses sculpture, art, and design to contextualize racial terror. The City of
Ocoee has been invited to the grand opening of the memorial because of the tragic events that took place during
the Ocoee Election on November 2, 1920.
On April 5, 2018, the Human Relations Diversity Board (HRDB) voted to send four of its members to
Montgomery, Alabama to attend the grand opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice to be held on
April 26-29, 2018. These HRDB members are: Mayor Rusty Johnson, Ex-Officio Member; Dr. Kathleen Crown,
Chairman; William E. Maxwell, Past Chairman and Nichole Dawkins, Past Chairman. The HRDB members are
joining Mayor Johnson who will be attending the grand opening in Montgomery to represent the City of Ocoee.
The memorial structure on the center of the site is constructed of over 800 corten steel monuments, one for each
county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place. The names of the lynching victims are
engraved on the columns. We have been told a column representing the lynchings that took place in Orange
County, Florida will be on display at the memorial.
Attachments:
Invitation to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Financial Impact:
The cost is estimated to be $1,500 per person to attend the event. The HRDB has sufficient funding in their
discretionary account to finance this trip.
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Please join us in
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Tickets are now available at
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From April 26-29,Montgomery will
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The Equal Justice Initiative(EJI)is excited to announce the Grand Opening
of two new sites in Montgomery,Alabama,that explore our nation's history of racial inequality.
On April 26, 20I8,
the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
will become the nation's first comprehensive memorial dedicated to over 4000 victims
of racial terror lynchings.
On the same day,EJI will open the doors to a unique museum that explores
slavery in America and its evolution.
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
is located on a site where enslaved people were once warehoused,a block from one of the most
prominent slave auction spaces in America, where tens of thousands of black people were
trafficked at the height of the domestic slave trade.
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