But Bolling’s name is now listed among thousands on a new memorial for victims of hate-inspired lynchings that terrorized generations of U.S. blacks. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is a project of the non-profit Equal Justice Initiative, a legal advocacy group in Montgomery. The site includes a memorial to the victims of 4,400 “terror lynchings” of black people in 800 U.S. counties from 1877 through 1950. The memorial could help heal individual families and the nation by acknowledging the painful legacy of racial murders, she said. E.M. Beck, who studied lynching for 30 years and has written books on the subject, said the memorial might actually understate the scope of lynching even though it lists thousands of victims.

Source: National Post April 21, 2018 13:05 UTC