More than a million people have visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., since it opened four years ago.
It’s a project of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) that remembers thousands of lynching victims. Their names are etched on 800 steel blocks — one for each U.S. county where racial killings occurred. The monuments hang from an open-air pavilion on a hilltop overlooking the Montgomery skyline.
Now the memorial is expanding.
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