*A memorial dedicated to more than 4,000 African-American victims of lynching opened up in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday, featuring large blocks that hang from the ceiling baring the names of victims, ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Hundreds of people lined up in the rain to get a first look at a lynching memorial and museum that opened Thursday in Montgomery, Alabama. The National Memorial for Peace and ...

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A new memorial in Montgomery, Ala., remembers the thousands of African-Americans who were lynched. NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Bryan Stevenson,... Peace And Justice Memorial Seeks To Make Horror Of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A memorial that honors thousands of victims of lynching and explores the lasting impact the practice had on American culture is now open in Alabama. The National Memorial for Peace ...

The memorial captures the brutality and the scale of lynchings throughout the South, where more than 4,000 black men, women and children, died at the hands of white mobs between 1877 and 1950. Most ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Southern states have long welcomed tourists retracing the footsteps of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and others who opposed segregation. Now the Alabama city that was the ...

A memorial that opened last week in Montgomery, Alabama, honoring lynching victims aims to force a reckoning with one of the United States’ worst atrocities. In a news article and an editorial, The ...