Group unveils plans for museum on race, lynchings in America
The Montgomery-based group says it has identified more than 4,000 lynchings of blacks in the United States from 1877 until 1950, and will honor each county's victims on dual pillars — one at the memorial and another to be installed in each county where the lynchings happened.
The Equal Justice Initiative is led by Bryan Stevenson, an attorney known for representing death row inmates and juvenile defendants.