The Memorial to Peace and Justice

The Memorial to Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial,[1] is a national memorial planned to commemorate the victims of lynching in America, and is expected to open in 2018.[2] The memorial is to be built in downtown Montgomery by the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit in Montgomery, Alabama. Also planned is a museum, From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, near the Montgomery site where slaves were auctioned.[3]

The monument "will consist of hundreds of floating concrete columns that will represent each county in the United States and contain the names of more than 4,000 lynching victims". It is designed by MASS Design Group from Boston,[3] and will be built on six acres purchased by EJI.[2][4] According to the EJI, there were over 4000 documented lynchings of black victims between 1877 and 1950; the purpose of the monument is to name and thereby honor them.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Capehart, Jonathan (21 December 2016). "What the lynching memorial will force us all to face". The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  2. 1 2 The Memorial to Peace and Justice
  3. 1 2 Edgemon, Erin (16 August 2016). "Nation's first memorial to lynching victims, museum set for Montgomery". The Birmingham News. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "EJI Announces Plans to Build Museum and National Lynching Memorial". Equal Justice Initiative. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  5. ↑ Song, Jean (16 August 2016). "Alabama lynching memorial aims to confront ramifications of slavery". CBS News. Retrieved 23 August 2016.

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