YWCA Speaks Out Through Events

Join YWCA Central Carolinas on July 16 as we host the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Remembrance Project (CMRP) — a local initiative in partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative to confront our community’s history of racial terror lynchings. This important project seeks to uncover and honor the lives of Mr. Joseph McNeely and Mr. Willie McDaniel, two Black men lynched in Charlotte in the early 20th century, while fostering healing and reconciliation through education, storytelling and community dialogue.

Learn how CMRP is preserving history through soil collections, historic markers, youth engagement and a collective push for truth and justice. Together, we remember. Together, we build a better future.

Please note: This event does not include any graphic imagery.