The Nationa Memorial for Peace and Justice or the (Lynching Museum) sits on 6 acres of land in Montgomery, Alabama. Opened on April 26, 2018, and paid for with private donations. The museum contains 805 steel markers. Over 4,000 documented lynchings are documented. One for each county where lynchings took place, and on each marker are the names of those lynched. The markers are suspended to evoke the horror of being strung up and hung from a tree.
The Memorial for Peace & Justice – Montgomery, Alabama
