Lynching museum will honour victims of America's 'racial terror'

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UK Independent:

The Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) on Tuesday said it intended to open the memorial and museum - From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration - on a six acre site that would both honour the people who had been murdered, and draw attention to those responsible for what it called “racial terror lynching”. The group has estimated there were at least 4,000 such lynchings between 1877 and 1950.

“From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration will be situated within 150 yards of one of the South’s most prominent slave auction sites and the Alabama River dock and rail station where tens of thousands of enslaved black people were trafficked,” said the EJI.

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Teenager Emmett Till was murdered in 1955 after talking to a white woman in Mississippi (Wikipedia)

“The museum will connect the history of racial inequality with contemporary issues of mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and police violence.”