From October 17, 2022 post.
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the National Park Service (NPS) will provide grants to two Memphis-area projects as part of its Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative. One grant, for $3,801, will support a historic marker near the site of the 1911 lynching of Pat Crump “to bring public awareness to racial terror lynchings in Shelby County,” according to the NPS statement. The second grant, for $25,000, goes to the Oxford American Literary Project for its “No More Tears” outreach program introducing participants to the region’s civil rights history.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
“I am pleased to see the National Park Service making these investments in our community as part of its Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative. I have introduced legislation encouraging an NPS study of lynching sites in Memphis and around our region for their possible inclusion in the park system. The historical marker supported by one of these grants will help to call attention to this unfortunate period in our history.”
Original source can be found here.
