A lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, opened April 26. Created by Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is paired with The Legacy Museum ...

Politics On a Hill in Alabama, the Lynched Haunt Us The new museum and memorial in Montgomery are exactly the remembrance America needs By Jamil Smith May 6, 2018 ...

Lynching violence was local, Stevenson says. Here, visitors get a more detailed narrative about specific cases in the form of historical markers that look like what you might see alongside a highway.

Eight hundred weathered steel columns, each one etched with the names of a lynching victim, hang from the roof of the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., April 20, 2018.

Update: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, honoring more than 4,000 victims of lynching in America, opened to the public April 26th, 2018, in Alabama. Below, Oprah Winfrey's first look ...

Alabama Tourism Director Lee Sentell stands near the Civil Rights Memorial. Erected by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1989, it was among the first monuments in Montgomery recognizing civil ...

That changed recently, when the nation’s first memorial to the more than 4,400 people who were lynched in the United States between 1877 and 1950 opened late last month in Montgomery, Alabama.

It’s a reminder that the past lines our paths and runs beneath our feet. EJI says about 120 counties named in the memorial ...

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a project in the works since 2010. It stands in recognition of what EJI says were more than 4,400 documented lynchings of African-Americans by whites ...

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opens in Montgomery, Ala., this week and is devoted to the victims of lynching. It reflects on the nation's history of racial terror, from slavery to ...

Eight hundred weathered steel columns, each one etched with the names of a lynching victim, hang from the roof of the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., April 20, 2018.