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Story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...e-to-remember-heal/ar-AAw8Q0S?ocid=spartanntp
"A new memorial for victims of hate-inspired lynchings that terrorized generations of U.S. blacks -- The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is a project of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a legal advocacy group in Montgomery, Alabama. The organization says the combined museum and memorial will be the nation's first site to document racial inequality in America from slavery through Jim Crow to the issues of today. The site includes a memorial to the victims of 4,400 "terror lynchings" of black people in 800 U.S. counties from 1877 through 1950. All but about 300 were in the South, and prosecutions were rare in any of the cases.
Ok, can someone explain to me why we need this memorial? So, Confederate monuments get to come down and this 'aberration' gets to go up.
@Captain Davis, @Cint
"A new memorial for victims of hate-inspired lynchings that terrorized generations of U.S. blacks -- The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is a project of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a legal advocacy group in Montgomery, Alabama. The organization says the combined museum and memorial will be the nation's first site to document racial inequality in America from slavery through Jim Crow to the issues of today. The site includes a memorial to the victims of 4,400 "terror lynchings" of black people in 800 U.S. counties from 1877 through 1950. All but about 300 were in the South, and prosecutions were rare in any of the cases.
Ok, can someone explain to me why we need this memorial? So, Confederate monuments get to come down and this 'aberration' gets to go up.
@Captain Davis, @Cint
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