Tag: equal justice initiative
New Report Says 2,000 Blacks Lynched During Reconstruction Era
A new report from the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) says that from the end of the Civil War in 1865 until the traditional close of…
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New Pavilion to Victims of Lynching from 1865 to 1877 Opened in Montgomery, Ala.
The Equal Justice Initiative (EIJ) has attracted a lot of attention over the last several years for its marking of lynching sites throughout the United…
The First Historical Marker Commemorating a Lynching in Missouri
The Equal Justice Inititative is installing community remembrance markers at the sites of places where African Americans were lynched. This is the first such marker…
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