During Black History Month, dive deeper into African American History and civil rights at these and nine other sites across the country.
The national memorial is dedicated to the legacy of those who endured centuries of racial violence and injustice, according to the EJI website. That“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.”
During Black History Month, which starts Feb. 1, dive deeper into African American History and civil rights at these and nine other sites across the country:The memorial is set on a 6-acre site, where art and design put racial terror into context, starting with the at the entrance of the memorial. The site includes a memorial square with 800 6-foot-tall monuments, one for each county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place. The names of victims are engraved on the columns.The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
– provides what the website calls “a comprehensive history of the United States with a focus on the legacy of slavery.” It’s located near what was once one of the most prominent slave auction spaces in the United States. Exhibits explore “the economics of enslavement; the violence of slavery, sexual violence against enslaved Black women, the commodification of people, and the desperate efforts enslaved people made to stay connected to loved ones.
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