The extremely sobering but important museum is housed on the site of a former cotton warehouse and tells the story of slavery in America and its legacy, including the era of Jim Crow laws and lynchings to the civil rights era to the current era of mass incarceration. The nearby memorial is on a hilltop overlooking Montgomery and is “dedicated to the legacy of Black Americans who were enslaved, terrorized by lynching, humiliated by racial segregation, and presumed guilty and dangerous.” The names of more than 4,400 Black people killed in racial terror lynchings are engraved on the more than 800 steel monuments on the site (representing the counties in which the lynchings took place)
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