“The Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice”
Presented by Equal Justice Initiative
The legacy of racial terror lynchings in America must be confronted. After documenting more than 4,000 lynchings around the country, the Equal Justice Initiative sought to establish the first national memorial acknowledging victims. As part of the memorial’s advocacy and capital campaigns, 1504 partnered with EJI to tell stories through soil collections, historical imagery, and community markers. In collaboration with Kunhardt Films, 1504 served as a production unit on the HBO documentary, “True Justice," winner of a 2019 Peabody Award. Since opening, EJI drew has drawn more than half a million visitors from around the world to Montgomery and continues to expose the lingering ties between slavery and mass incarceration.
“Slavery didn’t end in 1865. It just evolved. It turned into decades of terrorism, violence, and lynching. And the era of lynching was devastating. It created a shadow all over this country, and we haven’t talked about it; we haven’t confronted it.” - Bryan Stevenson
From the New York Times
“A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It”
Collaborators
Bryan Stevenson
Chip Brantley
Andrew Grace
Outpost Pictures
Kunhardt Films
The Fairfield Four
Additional Works
