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BLack Lives Matter and National Memorial for Peace and Justice

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Beginning in the 16th century, ...lition following the Civil War.

Beginning in the 16th century, millions of African people were kidnapped, enslaved, and shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas under horrific conditions. Nearly two million people died at sea during the agonizing journey. Over two centuries, the enslavement of black people in the United States created wealth, opportunity, and prosperity for millions of Americans. As American slavery evolved, an elaborate and enduring mythology about the inferiority of black people was created to legitimate, perpetuate, and defend slavery. This mythology survived slavery’s formal abolition following the Civil War.

The National Memorial for Peace...s of guilt and police violence.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened to the public on April 26, 2018, is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.

Thousands of African Americans ...Deaths Cannot be Documented ...

Thousands of African Americans are Unknown Victims of Racial Terror Lynchings Whose Deaths Cannot be Documented ...

... Many Whose Names will Never...own. They are All Honored Here.

... Many Whose Names will Never be Known. They are All Honored Here.

For the Hanged and Beaten. For ...aith Because We Shall Overcome.

For the Hanged and Beaten.
For the Shot, and Burned.
For the Torture, Tormented, and Terrorized.
For those Abandoned by the Rule of Law.

We Will Remember.

With Hope because Hopelessness the Enemy of Justice.
With Courage because Peace Requires Bravery.
With Persistence because Justice is a Constant Struggle.
With Faith Because We Shall Overcome.

The National Memorial for Peace...acial terrorism and its legacy.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice provides a sacred space for truth-telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy.

The memorial structure on the c...ms are engraved on the columns.

The memorial structure on the center of the site is constructed of over 800 corten steel monuments, one for each county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place. The names of the lynching victims are engraved on the columns.

Lynching was targeted racial vi...These lynchings were terrorism.

Lynching was targeted racial violence at the core of a systematic campaign of terror perpetuated in furtherance of an unjust social order. These lynchings were terrorism.

There were more than 4400 lynch...d States between 1877 and 1950.

There were more than 4400 lynchings of black people in the United States between 1877 and 1950.

The first shipment of slaves to...and Head Merchant of Jamestown.

The first shipment of slaves to the American colonies were brought to Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 and bought by the Governor and Head Merchant of Jamestown.

Guided By Justice is dedicated ...y Bus Boycott. Artist Dana King

Guided By Justice is dedicated to the women who sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Artist Dana King

Raise Up. Artist Hank Willis Thomas

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BLack Lives Matter and National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Copyright Eric Smith 2024

Updated Jun 2020

Location Mongomery AL

Topics Black and White, Black Lives Matter, Racism

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
Our history of the racial violence #pandemic includes over 4 thousand lynchings of black and brown people memorialize at this monument in Montgomery Alabama.
By 1860 Montgomery, Alabama was the capital of the domestic slave trade in Alabama.

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