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Founded by the non-profit Equal Justice Initiative, it opened in downtown Montgomery, Alabama on April 26, 2018. [2] [3] It consists of a memorial square with 805 hanging steel rectangles representing each of the U.S. counties where a documented lynching took place. It includes sculptures depicting themes related to racial violence.
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration is a museum in Montgomery, Alabama, that displays the history of slavery and racism in America. This includes the enslavement of African-Americans , racial lynchings , segregation , and racial bias .
"Three Negroes Are Lynched in Montgomery". The Gadsden Daily Times-News. Gadsden, Alabama: Times-News Print. Co. OCLC 12760995; The Guardian (May 25, 2018). "America's first memorial to victims of lynching opens in Alabama – live updates". The Guardian; The New York Times (October 5, 1919).
At the 6-acre National Memorial for Peace and Justice, visitors are solemnly exposed to the decadeslong domestic terrorism of more than 4,000 recorded lynchings in America between 1877 and 1950.
Here are 10 museums to visit during Black History Month 2023 to delve into African American history and civil rights, from Montgomery to Baltimore.
The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama, is the most recent of the three "Legacy sites" developed by the non-profit Equal Justice Initiative.. Starting in 2021, EJI acquired 17 acres in Montgomery on the Alabama River to erect the National Monument to Freedom, a 43 feet tall, 155 feet long wall depicting 122,000 surnames adopted by the 4.7 million formerly enslaved African ...
Will or Willie Temple (also named "John" [1]) was an African American man who was lynched by a white mob on September 30, 1919, in Montgomery, Alabama. Willie Temple born in 1894; he was the oldest of four children. His parents, Lewis and Ella (Shorter) Temple, were farmers, and Temple worked for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad as a cook ...
In Alabama, there were 359 reported lynchings between 1877 and 1943, according to the Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit. In Colbert County alone, there were 11.