Why you should visit Birmingham ... a touch-screen housing the Google-funded “Lynching in America” interactive online experience. Both the museum and the memorial are self-guided, with ...

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Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin joined ... King said she was stunned to see a jar of soil at the museum memorializing the lynching of a relative, Ed Bracy, in Hope Hull in 1935.

"The lynching memorial and museum will just be wonderful additions ... as we are able to say Elizabeth Lawrence was lynched in Birmingham, Wes Johnson was lynched in Abbeville — that for ...