National Memorial to Peace and Justice
National Memorial to Peace and Justice
The National Memorial to Peace and Justice is a collaboration between EJI + Mass Design Group that addresses the “decades of racial terror, lynching, and segregation” in the United States. “Sited on six acres of land in Montgomery, Alabama,” it is the first national memorial to victims of lancing in the US. The monument collects soil from the over 4,000 racial terror lynchings and suspends 800 steel monuments for each of the county locations where they occurred. “The memorial provides the necessary space for truth-telling, hope, healing, and reconciliation.”