🍃"The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration"/Open 4/26/18
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration"/Open 4/26/18
https://museumandmemorial.eji.org
The Museum and Memorial will open to the public on April 26, 2018
The Legacy Museum:
From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
Located on the site of a former warehouse where black people were enslaved in Montgomery, Alabama, this narrative museum uses interactive media, sculpture, videography and exhibits to immerse visitors in the sights and sounds of the domestic slave trade, racial terrorism, the Jim Crow South, and the world’s largest prison system. Compelling visuals and data-rich exhibits provide a one-of-a-kind opportunity to investigate America's history of racial injustice and its legacy — to draw dynamic connections across generations of Americans impacted by the tragic history of racial inequality.
Sculpture by Titus Kaphar
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
More than 4400 African American men, women, and children were hanged, burned alive, shot, drowned, and beaten to death by white mobs between 1877 and 1950. Millions more fled the South as refugees from racial terrorism, profoundly impacting the entire nation.
Until now, there has been no national memorial acknowledging the victims of racial terror lynchings.
On a six-acre site atop a rise overlooking Montgomery, the national lynching memorial is a sacred space for truth-telling and reflection about racial terror in America and its legacy.
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Time won't heal it, & the guilty must never be allowed to minimize nor erase the shame of humanity.
Human Rights is the foremost campaign worthy of our existence.
