Community Remembrance Project - Equal Justice Initiative
EJI supports efforts to locally memorialize documented victims of racial violence and to educate communities about the history of racial injustice. EJI works with communities to install historical markers that acknowledge lynchings, like this one in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
EJI’s Race and Poverty Project Lynching in America is part of EJI’s race and poverty project, which examines the history of racial injustice in America and the impact of structural poverty on a range of issues.
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Explore The Map | Lynching In America - Equal Justice Initiative
Racial terror lynchings were not limited to the South, but the Southern states had the most in the nation: over 4,000 between 1877 and 1950. Reported lynchings by county.
Departments | Levy County, FL
Public Safety. Levy County Department of Public Safety is a comprehensive emergency response organization, including medical services (EMS) and fire services, for the citizens and visitors of Levy County. Levy County EMS is the sole ambulance provider based in Levy County. The County EMS Fleet consists of seven Advance Life Support (ALS ...
Lynching in America is part of EJI’s race and poverty project, which examines the history of racial injustice in America and the impact of structural poverty on a range of issues. We invite you to join us in our work on the
Environmental Justice Index (EJI) Fact Sheet - Agency for Toxic ...
Mar 8, 2024 · The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) is the first national, place-based tool designed to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental burden through the lens of human health and health equity. The EJI delivers a single score for each community so that public health officials can identify and map areas most at risk for the health impacts of ...
Environmental Justice Index - HHS.gov
Jan 6, 2023 · The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) is the first national, place-based tool designed to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental burden through the lens of human health and health equity. The EJI delivers a single score for each community so that public health officials can identify and map areas most at risk for the health impacts of ...
County Data Supplement This supplement presents the numbers of documented African American victims of racial terror lynching killed in the United States between 1877 and 1950, per county/parish. This data was compiled as part of the Equal Justice Initiative’s narrative report, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror. In ...
Johnny Hiers files for county commission District 5 seat
Jan 11, 2024 · Hiers, a fourth-generation Levy County native and conservative, announced his intentions to run for the District 5 seat, which is up for election this year, on Jan. 4, according to a social media post by his wife, Marla Hiers.