National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, a national memorial to commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States.
The memorial, opened in 2018, features steel monuments dangling like bodies is the brainchild of Bryan Stevenson, who was inspired by the Holocaust memorials in Europe and by the post-Apartheid Truth and Reconciliation process in South Africa.
800 six-foot monuments hang in rows, with each coffin shape representing a county where a racial terror lynching took place. Incorporated into each monument are the names of the racial terror lynching victims and the date of their murder engraved on it.
Current research shows that 4,084 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950. More than 85% of the lynchings took place in the Southern states. (photo by Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images)
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Montgomery, Alabama)