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The grant will help us to tell the long history of African Americans striving for education in Lowndes County and throughout the South and offer educational and career support to the people of a county with one of the most violent histories of White Supremacy in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/1618119731563-TCY9627BOHKYZ530O7N5/elmore_bolling_marker_lowndesboro_alabama.jpg Home - Remembrance Coalition : History Revealed in “Bloody Lowndes” “We cannot heal the deep wounds inflicted during the era of racial terrorism until we tell the truth about it.” — Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative The Elmore Bolling Initiative convened the Lowndes County Community Remembrance Coalition to bring present day residents into dialogue about our shared history. https://bollinginitiative.org/our-story/about-the-initiative daily 0.75 2023-02-13 https://bollinginitiative.org/our-story/our-board daily 0.75 2025-08-19 https://bollinginitiative.org/our-impact/lowndesboro-school daily 0.75 2024-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/1629672593013-ZPJXZJ7S5979YSIZ51E8/The+Lowndesboro+School.jpeg https://bollinginitiative.org/our-story/about-elmore-bolling daily 0.75 2025-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/1619070313499-ZBLAX10FQ3GJKRAR0IPM/Elmore+%26+Bertha+RestoredCir1945.jpg About Elmore Bolling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/1619071172287-BO3WO4DIWS187FJAJYNV/055db580-2707-4564-83c9-d55102364a69.jpg About Elmore Bolling https://bollinginitiative.org/contact daily 0.75 2023-11-21 https://bollinginitiative.org/lowndes-county daily 0.75 2022-08-20 https://bollinginitiative.org/our-impact/scholarship daily 0.75 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/53028d34-5518-4b90-a8fd-b709c9821161/IMG_3186.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/eedb2ad2-19ae-4a52-a90d-19f8e1c0a05e/Justin+King+2023+scholarship.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/900bae52-881a-476d-be00-be032057b2cb/2021+Scholarship+winner.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/1632289687142-KPL3DKFR0X05614DWAP1/bolling_scholarship.png Scholarship Program - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/637c68f7-5af0-4e09-adf5-4710de4fa00c/image0.jpeg https://bollinginitiative.org/our-impact/remembrance-coalition daily 0.75 2021-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/1623737043357-2E7OEGLOR9L0ES4Z2EXR/adrianjohnson.png Remembrance Coalition - “It is important to reflect on the injustice to victims of racial terror throughout Lowndes County history so we can ensure that justice is served in the future.” — Judge Adrian Johnson District Court, Lowndes County Community Remembrance Coalition member https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/1630472556798-KGX58U2BTG1SEZ0B4Q30/marker_bolling.jpg Remembrance Coalition - Elmore Bolling: “Too Successful to be a Negro” Location: U.S. 80 at milepost 114 Elmore Bolling started with a mule and wagon and through ingenuity and hard work became a well-to-do farmer, an entrepreneur with a fleet of trucks and a general store, and a philanthropist. He assisted Black people in Lowndes County to become self-sufficient and his trucking business earned respect from white business owners who hired him for hauling jobs, including transporting livestock long-distance and to the stockyard. In 1947, when Elmore was 39 years old, a group of white people, enraged by Elmore’s success, conspired together and lynched him with six pistol bullets in his front and a shotgun charge in his back. His family, working at his nearby general store, heard the shots and ran to find him dead in a ditch by the side of Highway 80—a road Elmore had helped to build as a young man. Though multiple people were eyewitnesses to the crime, there was no criminal investigation at the time, no one was indicted, and justice was never served for Mr. Bolling’s lynching. 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She helped with the logistical coordination of the Selma to Montgomery March. Just hours after the march, while driving back to Selma after shuttling fellow activists to the Montgomery airport, she was killed by shots fired from a pursuing car containing Ku Klux Klan members Collie Wilkins, William Eaton, Eugene Thomas, and Gary Thomas Rowe, an undercover FBI informant. The KKK members were acquitted in the Alabama courts, despite eyewitness testimony and ballistics evidence. But a federal grand jury found them guilty of violating Viola Liuzzo’s civil rights and sentenced them to ten years in prison. Photo by Mark Hilton, HMdb.org. Source: Wikipedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602b67ff3ba5033eb863d4ed/1630474223151-F6OCILYSQCR270ALO8D8/marker_daniels.jpg Remembrance Coalition - Jonathan M. Daniels Monument Location: Hayneville Courthouse In August 1965, Jonathan Daniels, a 26-year-old white Episcopal seminary student from New Hampshire, and 22 others were arrested for participating in a voter rights demonstration in Fort Deposit in Lowndes County. After his release from jail in nearby Hayneville, Daniels emerged from Varner’s Cash Store with several other civil rights workers and was confronted by volunteer deputy sheriff Tom Coleman who was armed with a 12-gauge shotgun and threatened to kill them. Daniels stepped in front of the shotgun blast Coleman intended for teenage activist, Ruby Sales. The shooter, who had also turned his gun on a Catholic priest named Richard Morrisroe after shooting Daniels, was later acquitted by an all-white jury. Daniels was at least the 22nd person killed by white supremacists in the civil rights struggle between 1963 and 1965. Sixteen of the victims were Black, and only a few of those cases received national attention. 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