The National Memorial for Peace and Justice sits on six acres facing the Alabama state capital. Eight hundred steel blocks hang from the ceiling, bearing the names of 4,400 victims of one of the least ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A memorial that honors thousands of victims of lynching and explores the lasting impact the practice had on American culture is now open in Alabama. The National Memorial for Peace ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The nation’s first memorial to the thousands of people who were lynched in the decades following the Civil War has opened in the middle of where most of the violence took place. The ...

*A memorial dedicated to more than 4,000 African-American victims of lynching opened up in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday, featuring large blocks that hang from the ceiling baring the names of victims, ...

Last week, a lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama was opened in remembrance of the tragic and violent past that murdered innocent African-American victims. Lynchings were one of America’s most ...

The Equal Justice Initiative has announced plans to build a national memorial honoring the victims of lynching and a museum that will explore African American history from enslavement to mass ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Southern states have long welcomed tourists retracing the footsteps of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and others who opposed segregation. Now the Alabama city that was the ...