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Memorial to Peace and Justice in Montgomery
American Victims of Lynching Building, Southern United States of America – by MASS Design Group
23 Aug 2016
Memorial to Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama
Architects: MASS Design Group
Memorial to victims of lynching, Montgomery, Alabama
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) unveiled plans this week for the Memorial to Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.
Designed by Boston-based architects MASS Design Group, the new memorial building is intended to acknowledge victims of lynching throughout American history.
EJI also plans to construct a museum, called ?From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration,? inside its headquarters?a former slave warehouse in downtown Montgomery?with the goal of tracing racial history in the U.S. from the earliest days of slavery, through the Jim Crow era, to the present day.
image courtesy EJI / MASS Design Group
Situated on the highest point of Montgomery?the first capital of the Confederacy?the memorial is composed of two parts: one permanent, one mobile. MASS designed a large rectangular pavilion from which 801 6-foot columns will be suspended, representing the counties where lynchings took place.
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Every column will be inscribed with the names of the individuals killed there. In an adjacent field on the six-acre sit...