Black History Month is an opportunity to learn from the past to build a better future. This year it has come with a milestone for the Sarasota and Manatee Counties in efforts to recognize the injustices of the past. A new historical marker to memorialize and honor victims of lynching and Racial Terror is set to be unveiled next week. The marker which will be located at the Unitarian Universalists Church of Sarasota is going to be called the Manasota Racial Healing Memorial. According to the Equal Justice Initiative which embarked on an initiative to curate all the documented and undocumented lynchings in the country, Florida had 315 recorded lynchings. There were at least six documented cases of lynching that occurred in the Sarasota and Manatee areas. "Most of the lynching happened in the early 1900s and at that time Sarasota and Manatee County were one county and then," Dr. Caryl J. Sheffield, the chair of the Manasota Remembers.