The Allegany County Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Committee’s (ACLTRC) mission is to acknowledge and memorialize William Burns, a young African American man who was lynched in Cumberland, Maryland.

 

ACLTRC will remember William Burns while also helping Allegany County residents reconcile with the intergenerational harm caused by lynching and other violent acts against the African American community. 

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The Brownsville Project, a grassroots organization dedicated to helping communities heal from suppressed history, helped form ACLTRC in 2019. The Brownsville Project encourages communities to actively remember the past as a means to disrupt the patterns of oppression that plague us today.