To: bentway who wrote (202604 ) 6/19/2021 12:44:44 PM From: Sam Respond to The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is doing something like that ("erect a monument to every lynching, at the place where the lynching occurred") already. Work on the memorial began in 2010 when EJI staff began investigating thousands of racial terror lynchings in the American South, many of which had never been documented. EJI was interested not only in lynching incidents, but in understanding the terror and trauma this sanctioned violence against the Black community created. Six million Black people fled the South as refugees and exiles as a result of these "racial terror lynchings." Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror in 2015 which documented thousands of racial terror lynchings in 12 states. Since the report’s release, EJI has supplemented its original research by documenting racial terror lynchings in states outside the Deep South. EJI staff have also embarked on a project to memorialize this history by visiting hundreds of lynching sites, collecting soil, and erecting public markers, in an effort to reshape the cultural landscape with monuments and memorials that more truthfully and accurately reflect our history.museumandmemorial.eji.org James McWilliams psmag.com podcasts.apple.com vox.com
