During my November trip to Alabama, I visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, which profoundly deepened my understanding of the brutal history of lynching in America. I was shocked to learn that between 1877 and 1950, more than 4,400 documented lynchings occurred, predominantly targeting African Americans in Southern states. The memorial’s powerful design, featuring 800 corten steel columns—each representing a U.S. county where these atrocities took place—left me horrified and moved, much like my experience at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
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