In the fall of 2017, three Wake County educators and their students began researching the 1918 lynching of George Taylor. Their efforts led to a collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative based in Montgomery, Alabama, and the formation of the Wake County Community Remembrance Coalition. The students worked with archival documents and oral histories to create a timeline of the lynching and identified its location. However, they were unable to gather soil from the lynching site, so they collected soil from various locations across Wake County. That soil is now housed at the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. The students also created a "Citizen's Promise" to stand against inequity, signed by 450 residents.

Over the years, the coalition has led truth-telling events, worked for the installation of a historical marker for George Taylor in Rolesville, and obtained commitments for the inclusion of a "George Taylor Research Room" in a proposed new Wake County Library in Rolesville.