CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) - The College of Charleston will host a ceremony on Monday to collect soil from the Black burial sites on campus, which will be used in the future permanent African Burial Ground. Officials say the soil will be collected from the former site of the Brown Fellowship Society at Rivers Green. According to the College of Charleston, free people of color buried their dead in that area over two centuries ago. CofC student and 1967 Legacy Scholar Zaaid Stroman, whose grandfather John Stroman was a civil rights activist and a protestor who experienced the Orangeburg Massacre, will assist in gathering soil alongside President Andrew T. Hsu. "Commemoration is an important part of the process of healing for a community," says President Hsu. "By pulling together soil from ancestral burial sites around Charleston, we pay tribute to the past so that our present and future can be better." College of Charleston says the soil will be incorporated into a permanent memorial for the Anson Street African Burial Ground set to be unveiled in Spring 2025. The ceremony is set to begin at 5 p.m. at Rivers Green - 71 Coming St.