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 ...

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

Entertainment A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Arthur St. Clair, a minister, was lynched in Hernando County, Florida, in 1877 for performing the wedding of a ...

The memorial is made up of more than 800 rusted, steel columns that are suspended from the ceiling. Each represents an American county in which a lynching took place between 1877 and 1950.

1. At the six-acre memorial site, 800 steel markers pay tribute to lynching victims Each of the markers represents a county in the United States where a lynching took place.

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 ...

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 ...

Anniston/Gadsden Real-Time News Why the story of a 1906 Alabama lynching won't be forgotten Published: Dec. 11, 2016, 11:00 a.m. By William Thornton | wthornton@al.com headline.PNG ...

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 ...