This new lynching memorial rewrites American history
Montgomery, Alabama, a place where the streets are named after confederate generals, and a star still stands where Jefferson Davis became the president of the confederacy. Also, the place where Martin Luther King and others planed the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum are two soon to be additions that will tell the tragic history of this city. The memorial has over 800 steel boxes hanging from a ceiling each with the name of a county where people were lynched. And the museum shows the beginnings of American slavery to present day treatment of black people.
Obviously this relates to American slavery when the Native Americans were enslaved at first, but eventually Africans were taken to America to work on the plantations. They were treated lesser than a white man and none of them had any rights. This mindset evolved to what it is today. Although black people more rights now, they are still treated lesser than a white person.
This is great that the city is starting to realize the dark sides of its history. The sad thing is, many white museum goers have complained that the museum is too "uncomfortable" as if the issue is a light one.
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