In the News ... "'Precious cargo': Soil honors Everett Grover, black man killed in Abilene in 1922"

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• “There’s still a lot of work left to do”

By Loretta Fulton, Reporter
• Abilene Reporter-News

ABILENE, TEXAS - The jar containing soil from the site where Grover C. Everett was murdered in Abilene in 1922 might as well have held his ashes for the sacred way it was treated by a group of McMurry University students who recently took the glass vessel to a museum in Alabama ...

... Taking the soil to the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, was part of a larger tour of civil rights sites that concluded a spring sociology course at McMurry taught by Robert Wallace ...

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