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The Equal Justice Initiative is making plans to construct a new 17-acre Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery.It will be built on the banks of the Alabama River where tens of thousands of enslaved Black people were trafficked and sold into slavery.
EJI says the purpose is to bring together history and the narrative honoring those who were emancipated after the Civil War. “We’re now calling our space Legacy Sites to include the memorial, the museum and this monument,” EJI founder Bryan Stevenson told Action 8 News. “I think it will hopefully bring even more people here and get them to spend more time here in deep reflection. We’re creating these spaces because I believe we need an era of truth-telling about our history and that can yield something really positive, really helpful, really hopeful for our community and we’re just excited to share that with everyone,” he said.
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