BY MASTON MORWICK A plan to install markers at the sites of lynchings in Volusia County sparked some tension among members of ...
Reporting on tragic events is sometimes tough for NBC's Lester Holt, and his work has put him in scary situations. It has also impacted how he lives his life.
The Equal Justice Initiative, the nonprofit organization behind Montgomery’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice, is now ...
Records are sketchy, so it’s impossible to say how many people were lynched, but the Equal Justice Initiative has documented 2,000 lynchings of Black Americans during Reconstruction. Black women ...
Records are sketchy, so it’s impossible to say how many people were lynched, but the Equal Justice Initiative has documented 2,000 lynchings of Black Americans during Reconstruction. Black women and ...
Our hearts go out to all who loved this young individual and must be devastated right now. This lynching cannot go unanswered. Incarcerated people’s lives must be protected.” Wright called on state ...
Those lynchings are now represented by soil from the sites of their untimely deaths. Jars containing the soil were sent to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.
After slavery ended lynchings, Jim Crow laws and incarcerations followed. The Legacy Museum, The National Memorial for Peace & Justice, and The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery ...