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America’s First Memorial to the Victims of Lynching
Kriston Capps’ article in the Atlantic describes Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative’s memorial due to open in 2018, “the first such memorial in the U.S., and, its founders hope, it will show how lynchings of black people were essential to…
Read MoreLynching in Amerca
The Root announced the unveiling of a new, valuable web resource. “Google and the Equal Justice Initiative launched a website Tuesday [June 13, 2017] that explores the history and legacy of racial terror in the United States, specifically during the…
Read MoreMemphis Students Unite Their Community 100 Years After A Lynching
One hundred years after his brutal lynching, Eli Persons was commemorated at a ceremony attended by 500 community members in Memphis (May 21, 2017) organized by a student-led activist group, Students Uniting Memphis (SUM) to bring awareness to this and other…
Read MoreLynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, narrates this powerful video that briefly illustrates the history of lynching of black people in the United States by white terrorists. Stevenson explains EJI’s project to memorialize the victims of these crimes…
Read MorePlanned Memorial to Peace and Justice
Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative is planning a museum-memorial in Montgomery, Alabama to commemorate America’s black lynching victims.
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