Shockoe invites community members to help plan memorial process of permanent African Burying Ground

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The City of Richmond is in partnership with the Shockoe Project and other design teams to construct a memorial planning process of a permanent memorial at the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground.

The community focused event will be held Saturday, July 12 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Abner Clay Park.

At the gathering, preliminary design concepts of the memorial will be unveiled, along with a platform to provide residents a chance to voice their input on how to best honor the estimated 22,000 free and enslaved African Americans who were interred at the site…

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