Farmer. Mr. John Lee Eberhart was a member of the Athens community. He was jailed, abducted, lynched and burned in Clarke County, Athens, Georgia on February 16, 1921 by a violent white mob. His lynching was attended by approximately 3,000 partygoers, who celebrated his tortuous death.
Mr. Eberhart's lynching murder was commemorated at the 100th anniversary of the atrocity, on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, at the Athens-Clarke County Courthouse. The vigil was led by courageous prisoner's rights advocate, John Cole Vodicka. During the vigil, the crowd read aloud "Invocation," a poem by American poet and cultural advocate Elizabeth Alexander, that commemorates victims of racial terror and how they will not be forgotten, nor lost in the narration of American history.
Pastor Laura Patterson from United Methodist Church spoke about lent and the journey Christians make to Jesus' own lynching site.
"As a white southern Christian, if I am following a crucified, lynched God, then I have to learn to love those who are being crucified in this world more than I love my perceived right to crucify them — we have to acknowledge what we have done wrong, confess, ask for forgiveness and work to repair the harm we have done," Patterson said. His murder by lynching is reportedly the last recorded lynching in Clarke County, GA.
Sources: The Flagpole Newspaper
The Red and Black Newspaper
Mr. Eberhart's lynching murder was commemorated at the 100th anniversary of the atrocity, on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, at the Athens-Clarke County Courthouse. The vigil was led by courageous prisoner's rights advocate, John Cole Vodicka. During the vigil, the crowd read aloud "Invocation," a poem by American poet and cultural advocate Elizabeth Alexander, that commemorates victims of racial terror and how they will not be forgotten, nor lost in the narration of American history.
Pastor Laura Patterson from United Methodist Church spoke about lent and the journey Christians make to Jesus' own lynching site.
"As a white southern Christian, if I am following a crucified, lynched God, then I have to learn to love those who are being crucified in this world more than I love my perceived right to crucify them — we have to acknowledge what we have done wrong, confess, ask for forgiveness and work to repair the harm we have done," Patterson said. His murder by lynching is reportedly the last recorded lynching in Clarke County, GA.
Sources: The Flagpole Newspaper
The Red and Black Newspaper
Farmer. Mr. John Lee Eberhart was a member of the Athens community. He was jailed, abducted, lynched and burned in Clarke County, Athens, Georgia on February 16, 1921 by a violent white mob. His lynching was attended by approximately 3,000 partygoers, who celebrated his tortuous death.
Mr. Eberhart's lynching murder was commemorated at the 100th anniversary of the atrocity, on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, at the Athens-Clarke County Courthouse. The vigil was led by courageous prisoner's rights advocate, John Cole Vodicka. During the vigil, the crowd read aloud "Invocation," a poem by American poet and cultural advocate Elizabeth Alexander, that commemorates victims of racial terror and how they will not be forgotten, nor lost in the narration of American history.
Pastor Laura Patterson from United Methodist Church spoke about lent and the journey Christians make to Jesus' own lynching site.
"As a white southern Christian, if I am following a crucified, lynched God, then I have to learn to love those who are being crucified in this world more than I love my perceived right to crucify them — we have to acknowledge what we have done wrong, confess, ask for forgiveness and work to repair the harm we have done," Patterson said. His murder by lynching is reportedly the last recorded lynching in Clarke County, GA.
Sources: The Flagpole Newspaper
The Red and Black Newspaper
Mr. Eberhart's lynching murder was commemorated at the 100th anniversary of the atrocity, on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, at the Athens-Clarke County Courthouse. The vigil was led by courageous prisoner's rights advocate, John Cole Vodicka. During the vigil, the crowd read aloud "Invocation," a poem by American poet and cultural advocate Elizabeth Alexander, that commemorates victims of racial terror and how they will not be forgotten, nor lost in the narration of American history.
Pastor Laura Patterson from United Methodist Church spoke about lent and the journey Christians make to Jesus' own lynching site.
"As a white southern Christian, if I am following a crucified, lynched God, then I have to learn to love those who are being crucified in this world more than I love my perceived right to crucify them — we have to acknowledge what we have done wrong, confess, ask for forgiveness and work to repair the harm we have done," Patterson said. His murder by lynching is reportedly the last recorded lynching in Clarke County, GA.
Sources: The Flagpole Newspaper
The Red and Black Newspaper
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