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For many African Americans growing up in the South in the 19th and 20th centuries, the threat of lynching was commonplace. The popular image of an angry white mob stringing a black man up to a ...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (artist rendering), which commemorates 4,400 lynching victims, opens this month in Montgomery, Alabama. It was created by the Equal Justice Initiative.