The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Mar 28, 2022 06:35:30 #
On our way back home from Gulf Shores Alabama, we stopped in Montgomery,Alabama to tour this Memorial.
Opened to the public on April 26, 2018, this is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved Black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence. The hanging metal monuments are engraved with the State, County and names of the people lynched. My wife and I have toured Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, this Memorial in Montgomery is another reminder of just how cruel mankind can be to one another.
The Memorial can be found at 417 Caroline Street, Montgomery, Alabama More information can be found here.
https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/memorial
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Opened to the public on April 26, 2018, this is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved Black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence. The hanging metal monuments are engraved with the State, County and names of the people lynched. My wife and I have toured Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, this Memorial in Montgomery is another reminder of just how cruel mankind can be to one another.
The Memorial can be found at 417 Caroline Street, Montgomery, Alabama More information can be found here.
https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/memorial
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Mar 28, 2022 10:04:59 #
Roger2011
Loc: Central Illinois
It is sad that I grew up in the years 1943-1962 and didn't interact with a single black person. In the all-white environment I grew up in, we were taught to fear black people. I attended Burlington (Iowa) Community College with Bobby Joe Hill in 1962-1963. At 5' 11" we were the same height, but all other comparisons stop right there. He was simply amazing, even considering the fact that discrimination was rampant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Joe_Hill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Road_(film)
Note: The second link to the film doesn't work properly here, so it will be necessary to change to the proper link when viewing the Wiki page this link points to.
Note: The second link to the film doesn't work properly here, so it will be necessary to change to the proper link when viewing the Wiki page this link points to.
Mar 28, 2022 13:43:25 #
Roger2011 wrote:
It is sad that I grew up in the years 1943-1962 an... (show quote)
I haven't seen that movie but I will watch it on Netflix.
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MrMophoto
Loc: Rhode Island "The biggest little"
Celtis87 wrote:
Thank you for sharing. Powerful!
The same
Mar 29, 2022 12:03:15 #
Very moving…I couldn’t agree with you more; there is way too much inhumanity in our pasts. I wish we could all learn the lessons shared in these memorials. Thank you!
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Mar 29, 2022 13:46:03 #
Roger2011,Wingpilot,ChrisKet,MrPhoto, Upon visiting this Memorial, I was reminded about how much I didn't know about the slave history. The same when we visited Auschwitz in Poland a few years ago. It sparked an interest in learning more. Here is a very interesting link detailing 100 facts about this very dark period in our history. Just start on the first page and when you get down to the bottom, click on the " NEXT FACT" to read the next fact.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/j-a-rogers100-amazing-facts-about-the-negro/
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/j-a-rogers100-amazing-facts-about-the-negro/
Apr 2, 2022 22:33:29 #
Outstanding to hear this is there and thank you for your great photography to showcase this place. I had no idea it existed but look forward to learning more about this powerful memorial.
Rob
Rob
Apr 4, 2022 19:10:35 #
A great series of images of a wonderfully powerful memorial to victims of a once and present aberrancy in our land of the free and home of the brave where all are claimed to be embraced as equal.
Thanks, so very much, for sharing your images and thoughts.
Dave
Thanks, so very much, for sharing your images and thoughts.
Dave
Apr 4, 2022 21:16:02 #
Uuglypher wrote:
A great series of images of a wonderfully powerful memorial to victims of a once and present aberrancy in our land of the free and home of the brave where all are claimed to be embraced as equal.
Thanks, so very much, for sharing your images and thoughts.
Dave
Thanks, so very much, for sharing your images and thoughts.
Dave
It’s a moving memorial.
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