The Legacy Museum:
From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
Located on the site of a former warehouse where Black people were forced to labor in Montgomery, Alabama, this narrative museum uses interactive media, sculpture, videography, and exhibits to immerse visitors in the sights and sounds of the slave trade, racial terrorism, the Jim Crow South, and the world’s largest prison system. Compelling visuals and data-rich exhibits provide a one-of-a-kind opportunity to investigate America's history of racial injustice and its legacy — to draw dynamic connections across generations of Americans impacted by the tragic history of racial inequality.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
More than 4,400 African American men, women, and children were hanged, burned alive, shot, drowned, and beaten to death by white mobs between 1877 and 1950. Millions more fled the South as refugees from racial terrorism, profoundly impacting the entire nation. Until now, there has been no national memorial acknowledging the victims of racial terror lynchings. On a six-acre site atop a rise overlooking Montgomery, the national lynching memorial is a sacred space for truth-telling and reflection about racial terror in America and its legacy.
"[O]ne of the most powerful and effective new memorials created in a generation."
"There is nothing like it in the country."
The sites “reveal with immense emotional resonance and intellectual rigor the stories and politics around centuries of racial oppression and terror in the United States.”
"As a Southerner and an American . . . I consider this to be one of the great memorials of the world and a must-do experience for every woman, man and child."
"The most moving experience that we had while in Montgomery. I did not see a single person leave the museum without tears rolling down their cheeks."
"[O]ne of the most arresting and powerful memorials to America's history of racial violence."
“Breathtaking enough to justify a trip to Alabama.”
"The genius of the memorial is that it makes us grieve in broad daylight."
"With each person who visits the Legacy Museum, who faces these wounds of our past and is moved to change, we move one step closer to healing."
“One of the most ambitious memory-work projects in the nation.”
“One of the most impressive exhibits—and one of the most significant memorials—to be found anywhere on the planet. It simply doesn’t get better than this.”
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Updates
Free Admission to Museum and Memorial in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
EJI Opens Legacy Plaza
