ACRP Benjamin Thomas Remembrance Event

This year, we will observe the Remembrance for Benjamin Thomas on Friday, Aug. 28 with an hour long program of music and conversation from 7-8 p.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church at 1401 Jamieson Ave. This is in recognition of the mobilization of the Black community that met on that date in 1899 to condemn the lynching and protest racial violence.
Title:ACRP Benjamin Thomas Remembrance Event
Date & Time:Friday, August 28, 2026 • 7-8 p.m.
Location:Shiloh Baptist Church (Map This)
Shiloh Baptist Church
Event Details:An Evening in Remembrance of Benjamin Thomas
Civil Rights in Uncertain Times
A Conversation with NAACP’s Myesha Braden
Music by C. Eddye Miller
Fri. Aug. 28
Shiloh Baptist Church, 1401 Jaimeson Ave.
Doors open 6:30 p.m.
Program 7-8 p.m.

Who’s history? Our history. Who’s rights? Our rights. When factual history is buried, people are polarized, hate groups menace commuters on the metro, all aspects of life become uncertain, even constitutional rights. The Alexandria Community Remembrance Project invites the public to Shiloh Baptist Church for an Evening in Remembrance of Benjamin Thomas featuring a conversation with NAACP’s Myesha Braden. An attorney with the NAACP, Braden, is involved in fighting state and national attacks on voting rights.

The hour long event is being held on the same day in 1899 that more than 600 people gathered at the historic Shiloh Baptist Church on Duke Street to memorialize Thomas and protest his and all lynchings. The program will also feature music by C. Eddye Miller and Mayor Gaskins will give remarks. The annual event that is free and open to the public.

That same night, tours of the historic sanctuary where the Mass Meeting & Memorial for Thomas was held in 1899 will be available from 5:30-6:30 at 1400 Duke Street. The Freedom House, a museum that shares the story of Alexandria’s role in the domestic slave trade at 1315 Duke Street, will also be open for tours until 6:30 p.m.
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Fees:Free
Audience:Anyone may attend
Tags:Black History, Museums, Old & Historic Alexandria, Old Town


For event details visit https://apps.alexandriava.gov/CalendarTest/?63321
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