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April 26, 2018

New Alabama Memorial Is Dedicated to Victims of White Supremacy
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And the National Memorial for Peace and Justice opens today in
Montgomery, Alabama-a monument to victims of white supremacy in the
United States. The museum's centerpiece is a walkway with 800 weathered
steel pillars overhead, each of them naming a U.S. county and the people
who were lynched there by white mobs. The museum's creation was overseen
by Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative, who says more than
4,400 black people died by lynching throughout U.S. history. Stevenson
spoke to Democracy Now! in 2014.

Bryan Stevenson: "Lynching was horrific and terrifying. And we don't
talk about it. We put markers about the Confederacy in front of these
courthouses, but we don't say a word about the thousands of people that
were lynched, hundreds of whom were lynched on courthouse lawns."



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