A sobering museum
A few years ago, I was traveling through Montgomery, Alabama and we stopped at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. It is a museum dedicated to the memory of those in the US that lynched in the United States.
More than 4400 African American men, women, and children were hanged, burned alive, shot, drowned, and beaten to death by white mobs between 1877 and 1950. Millions more fled the South as refugees from racial terrorism, profoundly impacting the entire nation. Until now, there has been no national memorial acknowledging the victims of racial terror lynchings. On a six-acre site atop a rise overlooking Montgomery, the national lynching memorial is a sacred space for truth-telling and reflection about racial terror in America and its legacy.source
There are 800 of these structures hanging from the ceiling of the museum as you walk around the 6 acres that the museum spans. Each one represents a county in the United States where someone was lynched.
This was a very sobering experience as I walked through the museum grounds and read about the different people that were lynched and what they were killed for. It is a very educational place that leaves an impact on your after you leave.
We must never forget the past. Places like this are a much needed place to educate people, to help prevent anything like this ever happening again.
Well this is timely. Ida B Hayes who was born a slave won a special Pulitzer yesterday for her reporting on Lynching in America. In the early 1900s. Better late than never I guess.
Sometimes your photography is so powerful that I can't even comment. Sunday was one of those days. I wanted to ask: Which site had more affect on you. Auschwitz or Whitney Plantation? Both or those had a profound effect on me as did today's post.
I'm not sure which one had more of an impact. Both had very different feelings to them as I was there. Auschwitz has a very sad feel to it and you can feel the pain that happened there. The Whitney plantation was a beautiful place and it was hard to imagine the bad things that happened there. If it weren't for the statues and the plaques describing things, you would never be able to tell of the horrors that happened at the Whitney plantation.
Thanks Wes. I appreciate the answer.
If only people could learn from history, yet it tends to repeat itself. Hope this episode does not ever repeat... it is shameful.
Hopefully we never see anything like this happen again here. There are instances of slavery and oppression throughout the world.
To many i'm afraid. If humanity would address this issue with the same level of eagerness as they did with corona scam it would be eradicated, but it concerns too few powerful people to address the issue. The reason being they are not threatened by it or even more, that are profiting from it.
When I saw that thumbnail I knew it is not a funny post. That statue scares me already. Horrible what happened there. The memorial reminds a bit at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin with its many concrete pillars.
I would love to go and visit that memorial in Berlin.
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Certainly some sad history that was un-called for RIP. Great photography work 👍
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