Who are we?

The Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition [OCCRC], in coordination with the Equal Justice Initiative [EJI] of Montgomery, Alabama, is undertaking a multi-year project to recognize the people who were victimized by racial terror lynching from 1865 to 1950. To date, EJI has documented over 6,000 incidences of racial terror lynching in the US during that period, and of that number, over 100 occurred in North Carolina, and at least five in Orange County.

OCCRC will be recognizing Manly McCauley, Daniel Morrow, Jefferson Morrow, Washington Morrow, Cyrus Guy, Wright Wood, as well as the unnamed and unknown victims of racial terror lynching in the county. The Coalition’s work is to disrupt and overcome the detrimental systems and mindsets that have plagued America for generations, and to help usher forth a future of humanity, equity and justice for all of us.