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The Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row
I thought this was an interesting profile on Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative. He has been talking for a while about marking the historical sites of lynchings. EJI released a video of their plan for a memorial:
I thought this was an interesting profile on Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative. He has been talking for a while about marking the historical sites of lynchings. EJI released a video of their plan for a memorial:
The memorial also has a more provocative component. Adjacent to the colonnade will be another eight hundred and one columns, exact duplicates. Each county in which a lynching took place will be invited to remove its memorial column and display it in its own community. The columns that remain in Montgomery will stand in mute rebuke to the places that refuse to acknowledge their history of lynching. “For us, it’s the kind of activism that has clarity, purpose, and a goal,” Stevenson told me. “Sometimes the goals aren’t very clear or very well articulated, and you don’t know whether you’re getting closer or not. This will give us a way of measuring that. We’ll know the places that are resisting, and it should build pressure on those communities, and the people in those communities, that are either not doing enough or need to do more.”