They honor approximately 4,400 black Americans who were murdered in lynchings between 1877 and 1950. The first-of-its-kind memorial was created by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a legal ...

The Equal Justice Initiative, the nonprofit organization behind Montgomery’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice, is now ...

The lynching memorial opened last year and remembers ... Orange County provided research to the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery for the new monument and recently won approval from Orlando ...

BY MASTON MORWICK A plan to install markers at the sites of lynchings in Volusia County sparked some tension among members of ...

As a destination, Montgomery is a journey in contrasts ... Justice (417 Caroline Street), also known as the National Lynching Memorial. The six-acre site honors those murdered for simply existing ...

opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice—the first national memorial to African-American victims of lynching. In Montgomery, Alabama, visitors encounter a powerful sense of place when ...

"We had more enslaved people in Montgomery in ... the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which remembers more than 4,400 documented victims of lynching; and the new Freedom Monument ...

Mar 3, 2023 Mar 3, 2023 Updated Apr 11, 2024 A newly-established group wants to see a lynching memorial become part of the plans for a new Smith County courthouse in downtown Tyler. In May 1909 ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — In ... 2018 on Coosa Street accompanied by the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a site dedicated to victims of lynchings in the U.S. at 417 Caroline St.; the ...

Tina Harris remembers the day her grandmother, Mary Armwood, told her about Maryland's last documented lynching victim: George Armwood. "My grandmother is Mary Armwood, and George Armwood was her ...

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, Alabama by MASS Design Group is America’s first memorial to the victims of racial terror lynchings. This ...