{"id":161730,"date":"2018-04-26T05:39:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161730"},"modified":"2018-04-26T05:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:39:25","slug":"lynching-memorial-and-museum-in-montgomery-open-to-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/26\/lynching-memorial-and-museum-in-montgomery-open-to-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynching memorial and museum in Montgomery open to public"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_161732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161732\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31206228_1623246844427435_4065808362792360264_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161732\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31206228_1623246844427435_4065808362792360264_n.jpg\" alt=\"The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is dedicated to 4,400 individuals who lost their lives in lynchings and other racial killings between 1877 and 1950. Their names are engraved on 800 steel rectangles, one for each U.S. county where lynchings occurred. (Photo: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31206228_1623246844427435_4065808362792360264_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31206228_1623246844427435_4065808362792360264_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31206228_1623246844427435_4065808362792360264_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is dedicated to 4,400 individuals who lost their lives in lynchings and other racial killings between 1877 and 1950. Their names are engraved on 800 steel rectangles, one for each U.S. county where lynchings occurred. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MemorialPeaceJustice\/photos\/a.1611625328922920.1073741827.1611622478923205\/1623246844427435\/?type=1&amp;theater\">(Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MemorialPeaceJustice\/\">The National Memorial for Peace and Justice\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. &#8211; The public is getting its first look at a lynching memorial and museum in Montgomery, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is dedicated to 4,400 individuals who lost their lives in lynchings and other racial killings between 1877 and 1950. Their names are engraved on 800 steel rectangles, one for each U.S. county where lynchings occurred.<\/p>\n<p>A museum is also opening in Montgomery, called The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>Launch events include a \u201cPeace and Justice Summit\u201d featuring celebrities and activists like Ava DuVernay, Marian Wright Edelman and Gloria Steinem.<\/p>\n<p>The summit, museum and memorial are projects of the Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery-based legal advocacy group founded by attorney Bryan Stevenson. Stevenson won a MacArthur \u201cgenius\u201d award for his human rights work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. &#8211; The public is getting its first look at a lynching memorial and museum in Montgomery, Alabama. 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