We would like to thank the huge community of contributors whose efforts came together to organize the 2022 Lantern Walk. It was held on Saturday, November 19, 2022.

Community members

• Mr. Anderson Flen, Community lead
• Major Joe Womack of C.H.E.S.S.
• Lamar Howard of Caesars, Africatown Freedom Tours, MCTSAA, and Africatown Community Teach and Outreach
• Ruth Ballard of MCTSAA
• Washington “Wash” Taylor of MCTSAA
• Isaiah Pinkney of MCTSAA
• Ms. Valena McCants
• Jocelyn Davis of the Clotilda Descendant Association, and C.H.E.S.S.
• John Flen
• Gary Simpson Jr.
• Tim Andrews
• Bill Green of the Clotilda Descendant Association
• Damian Marks
• Robert Moore of T. Moore Trucking
• Ted Atkinson
• Pastor Williams of Yorktown Baptist Church
• Pastor Brady of First Hopewell Baptist Church

Community Organizations

• MCTS Alumni Association
• Clean, Healthy, Educated, Safe, and Sustainable (C.H.E.S.S.)
• Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
• Clotilda Descendants Association
• Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition (MEJAC)
• Africatown Community Teach and Outreach, NPO
• Churches:
• First Hopewell Baptist Church
• Union Baptist Church
• Yorktown Baptist Church
• Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church

International Organizations

• International Center for Transitional Justice, with special thanks to Virginie Ladisch

Universities

• Howard University and Columbia Universities: African American Redress Network, with special thanks to:
• Linda J. Mann and Billi Wilkerson
• Research Team: Erica Ivins, Corey Shaw, James Lennox
• Southern-Birmingham College, Southern Environmental Center, with special thanks to Roald Hazelhoff, their faculty and graduate students
• Mississippi State University, Department of Landscape Architecture, with special thanks to Director Bob Brzuszek
• Oberlin College, with special thanks to Jay Fiskio
• University of South Alabama, with special thanks to Dr. Dieudonné Gnammankou,  Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (Benin, West Africa)