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May 2, 2018
A bronze statue called “Raise Up” is part of the display at the new National Memorial for Peace and
Justice in Montgomery, Ala. a new memorial to honor thousands of people killed in lynchings. (AP
photo)
Tears and Grief at Lynching Memorial
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(AP) -- Tears and expressions
of grief met the opening of the na-
tion’s first memorial to the victims
of lynching Thursday in Alabama.
Hundreds lined up in the rain to
get a first look at the memorial and
museum in Montgomery.
The National Memorial for
Peace and Justice commemorates
4,400 black people who were
slain in lynchings and other racial
killings between 1877 and 1950.
Their names, where known, are
engraved on 800 dark, rectangular
steel columns, one for each U.S.
county where lynchings occurred.
Many visitors shed tears and
stared intently at the commemora-
tive columns, many of which are
suspended in the air from above.
Toni Battle drove from San
Francisco to attend. “I’m a de-
scendant of three lynching vic-
tims,” Battle said, her face wet
with tears. “I wanted to come
and honor them and also those
in my family that couldn’t be
here.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a long-
time civil rights activist, told re-
porters after visiting the memorial
that it would help to dispel Ameri-
ca’s silence on lynching.