National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Walk beneath more than 800 hanging steel monuments naming victims of racial terror lynchings, county by county.

417 Caroline St · Montgomery, AL

About National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Opened in 2018 on six acres in Montgomery, the memorial holds more than 800 corten steel monuments, one for each county where a documented racial terror lynching took place. They are engraved with the names of more than 4,400 Black Americans killed between 1877 and 1950. Sculptures by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, Dana King and Hank Willis Thomas stand on the grounds, and a memorial garden gives you a quiet place to reflect. One ticket also covers the Legacy Museum and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park.

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