--- title: Lynching Memorial to Open in Montgomery, Alabama description: The museum will open in spring 2017 canonical: https://time.com/4508156/equal-justice-initiative-lynching-memorial-museum-alabama/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-26T18:42:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T18:44:46.000Z article:section: U.S. og:title: The First U.S. Memorial for Lynching Victims Will Open in Alabama og:description: It will pay tribute to the more than 4,000 black victims killed between 1877 and 1950 og:url: https://time.com/4508156/equal-justice-initiative-lynching-memorial-museum-alabama/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt314cd77c4dde6d7d/6988a7fe0a4a229bfd9cb721/160816_memorial1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2734 og:image:height: 1538 og:image:alt: Memorial og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The First U.S. Memorial for Lynching Victims Will Open in Alabama twitter:description: It will pay tribute to the more than 4,000 black victims killed between 1877 and 1950 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt314cd77c4dde6d7d/6988a7fe0a4a229bfd9cb721/160816_memorial1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The First U.S. Memorial for Lynching Victims Will Open in Alabama > Sponsored content. 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The March on Washington was a peaceful demonstration for racial equality. But it would not have happened without the beatings, arrests and violent struggle for civil rights that had already engulfed the Deep South._ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:44 PM UTCPublished: Sep 26, 2016 6:42 PM UTC  Image courtesy of the Equal Justice Initiative by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:44 PM UTCPublished: Sep 26, 2016 6:42 PM UTC An Alabama-based civil rights organization will [construct a monument in Montgomery to commemorate victims](http://www.al.com/news/montgomery/index.ssf/2016/09/equal%5Fjustice%5Finitiative%5Fbuild.html) of lynchings across the South. The [Equal Justice Initiative ](http://eji.org/news/eji-announces-plans-to-build-museum-and-national-lynching-memorial) will also construct a museum nearby focused on African-American history, the group announced in a press release on Monday. Both are scheduled to open in 2017. The memorial will be the first in the country to pay tribute to the more than 4,000 black victims of lynching who were killed between 1877 and 1950\. The 6-acre monument will feature a series of columns, each representing a county where “racial terror lynchings” took place, according to the Equal Justice Initiative. The names of the victims will be engraved on the columns. Bryan Stevenson, the organization’s director, said in an interview with the [Associated Press](http://www.al.com/news/montgomery/index.ssf/2016/09/equal%5Fjustice%5Finitiative%5Fbuild.html), that by acknowledging the darker aspects of the country’s history, hopefully the U.S. can work toward a more unified future. “I don’t think we can afford to continue pretending that there aren’t these really troubling chapters in our history,” Stevenson said. “I think we’ve got to deal with it.” A few blocks away from the memorial in Montgomery, a new museum, called From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, will rise on the site of a former slave warehouse, near a former slave auction house and a river dock and train station from which slaves were trafficked. The museum will trace the history of slavery to the mass imprisonment of black Americans today, which scholar Michelle Alexander has dubbed the “New Jim Crow.” News of the museum comes days after the grand opening of the [National Museum of African American History and Culture](http://time.com/4506800/barack-obama-african-american-history-museum-transcript/?iid=sr-link1), the first Smithsonian Institution dedicated to the contributions of black Americans. During remarks at an [opening ceremony on Saturday](http://time.com/4506699/president-obama-opening-smithsonian-museum-african-american-history/?iid=sr-link2), Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama said the museum helps America acknowledge the full truth of its past. “As President Bush just said, a great nation doesn’t shy from the truth. It strengthens us. It emboldens us. It should fortify us,” Obama said. “It is an act of patriotism to understand where we’ve been.” ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, there's not anything more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people. We shall not be moved. As a kid, there was not much I could aspire to. We were diminished in the way we thought we could access power. And be part of the American fabric. [ NOISE ] And so, this gigantic march. We were saying to the world, this Land of great opportunity. This land of liberty, has an asterisk beside it. It is a land of freedom for everybody else, except black people. [ CROSSTALK ] Do you want to be free? Yes! Do you want to be free? Yes! Do you want to be free? Yes! [ CROSSTALK ] [ MUSIC ] Prior to Martin Luther King, Jr ., the United States was like a dysfunctional drug addict or alcoholic. You become addicted to racial segregation. [ MUSIC ] The end of the second World War, you were under the belief, if we were triumphant over Fascism, that the men and women returned from that conflict. Would be celebrated and honored When I was growing up in rural Alabama and would see those signs that was there. White waiting, colored waiting. White men, colored men. I would ask my mother, my father, my grandparents why they would say, that's the way it is, don't get in the way. I first knew of Dr. King the way everybody knew of Dr. King. All of a sudden one day in the midst of this turmoil in some far away place called Montgomery. Dr. King was pressed into service and took over the leadership of the Montgomery bus boycott, and we heard that almost immediately because not only did he, accept the leadership. But he pressed this idea that we should do it nonviolently. I was deeply inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Junior to find a way to get in the way. So, I used non violence by sitting on a lunch counter stool, by going on the freedom ride. To get in the way. The Freedom Ride was an attempt to break the segregation laws on interstate transportation on buses and on trains. There were six whites on the Freedom Ride and seven blacks we would sit together the black and white and Rock Hill South Carolina is where we encountered the first violence with John Lewis being. Pretty well beaten up. Federal government finally intervened and these early victories only encouraged us that we could do other things. They were very smart, media wise, because they dressed up. They put the ties on, they put jackets on. They were looking good. And they are going up against the authority. They're going against the man That was tremendously exciting to us as young, white southerners. As the non- violent uh, concept grew, parallel to that was also the growth of, eye for an eye violence. And there were many who, were quite bright, and quite gifted and honorable men and women. We saw violence as an answer. That just did not quite sit comfortably with the code that others of us had. Saying that although racism was a cruel experience, we could not fight it by becoming racists. [ NOISE ] In Birmingham, Alabama, the nation was cheated with television images. Of black and white boys and girls having high pressure fire hoses , slam them up against the walls as they were peacefully demonstrating to end segregation. Police dogs biting them. These pictures were circulated all around the world. [ NOISE ] But those demonstrations were like a. Spark that ignited a prairie fire of black protests across the country. And Kennedy, on the one hand he's trying to win Africans and people and say, we're a better system than Communism, and at the same time there was this harsh treatment of black people that just didn't square in the final equation. And the more we were fiesty in our demands of government, the more it revealed the weaknesses in our construct. What started out, as the Black Negro protest, had developed into a Negro revolution. There was a feeling that we would not be able to break the deep south. So, that march on Washington was to be the culmination of all of this intense organizing. It really has to be a moral crusade for the country. The struggle for freedom in the United States had to move to the center of power. To where the predsident and the congress were that no matter how many demonstrations took place In Montgomery and in Birmingham, and in places all around the South. That until you could change the central government, significant things wouldn't happen. The march on Washington was an accumulation of all this cuz here would have been the biggest display of America in its most democratic moment. Making a choice, and it was something that was emerging as, a great demonstration as to the will of the people. [ MUSIC ] [ UNKNOWN ] That that day, erupted, into violence. Then our cause would be seriously. [ UNKNOWN ] reversed. And hard to come by again. 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