‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’
By preserving soil from sites where blacks died from lynchings, a museum aims to help America acknowledge the racist brutality in its past.
This story is part of The Race Issue, a special issue of National Geographic that explores how race defines, separates, and unites us.
Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, opened on April 26, 2018. Katie Couric explores racism and other timely subjects in her series America Inside Out With Katie Couric on National Geographic.
Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, opened on April 26, 2018. Katie Couric explores racism and other timely subjects in her series America Inside Out With Katie Couric on National Geographic.
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