EJI's dedication of Montgomery Square ended with a freedom song, led by Jeanette Howard-Moore, Viola Bradford, Margaret Howard, and Bryan Stevenson, along with the choir from Booker T. Washington Magnet High School.
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Today, EJI hosted the dedication of our newest site, Montgomery Square. We were thrilled to be joined by civil rights leaders, Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed, BTW high school choir, and Grammy award-winning gospel artist Le'Andria Johnson.
“If people do not know their history, they are liable to repeat it." Bryan Stevenson on the importance of facing our past honestly, the power of hope, and the opportunities that emerge when you stand with condemned and disfavored people. @edwardluce.bsky.social @ftweekend.com
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Montgomery Square is dedicated to the Montgomery decade that changed the world. From 1955 to 1965, Black residents in Montgomery stood up with incredible courage and determination, sparking a global movement that changed the world.
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Montgomery Square is now open.
Explore Montgomery Square.
Montgomery Square is now open. Visit and learn more: montgomerysquare.eji.org
We are thrilled that Montgomery Square is now open. This space is dedicated to the Montgomery decade that changed the world. From 1955 to 1965, Black people with extraordinary courage sparked a movement in Montgomery that transformed our country and world.
Montgomery Square is now open. Visit and learn more: montgomerysquare.eji.org
We are thrilled that Montgomery Square is now open. This space is dedicated to the Montgomery decade that changed the world. From 1955 to 1965, Black people with extraordinary courage sparked a movement in Montgomery that transformed our country and world.
The Grio explains how Elevation Convening Center and Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama is the perfect place for Legacy Sites visitors to stay while they're in town.
"Hanging Tree" by Charles Gaines at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Learn more about the era of Reconstruction and our history of racial injustice by visiting the Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama: legacysites.eji.org/
Steps outside the Legacy Museum is our memorial honoring victims of racial terror lynchings during Reconstruction (1865-1876). This critical time period is often over looked even though it had a profound impact on life in the U.S.
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"One of the most moving places that I have ever been to." "Powerful and heartbreaking. A must visit." "Just go."
These reflections from visitors capture what it is like to visit the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
“Mama I Hurt My Hand” by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Plan your visit: legacysites.eji.org/
Located in Montgomery, Alabama, the Legacy Museum offers visitors an immersive journey through the history of the destructive violence that shaped our nation, from the slave trade, to the era of Jim Crow and racial terror lynchings, to our current mass incarceration crisis.
The Atlantic's Clint Smith (@clintsmithiii.bsky.social) visited the Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama—spaces that he says "shows what's possible when museums aren't subject to capricious executive orders."
Replicas of historical markers erected across the country to memorialize victims of racial violence stand at the National Memorial in honor of the important work local communities around the country are doing to commemorate lynching victims.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a sacred space for truth telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy. Plan your visit: legacysites.eji.org/
The Legacy Museum, which is “perhaps the closest thing America has to a national slavery museum,” is free from government control and displays the “history that the Trump administration aims to de-emphasize—if not outright erase,” @clintsmithiii.bsky.social argues.
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, EJI is offering free admission to the Legacy Sites on Monday, January 19, 2026. Each visitor will receive a free copy of EJI’s award-winning wall calendar, A History of Racial Injustice.
"Reflection of Self," by Lionel Smit at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.
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📷 Stephen Gabris
The National Monument to Freedom stands inscribed with over 100,000 names that represent the four million formerly enslaved Black people who won freedom after the Civil War.
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📷 Stephen Gabris
"A full-spectrum, mind-blowing narrative dedicated to telling the most comprehensive story imaginable about the Black experience in America." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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A tragic, false narrative of racial difference was created in America that has resulted in centuries of racial bigotry and injustice. The Legacy Museum traces the evolution of this dehumanizing myth from our nation’s founding to today.
