Montgomery, Alabama

MONTGOMERY , ALABAMA Another local attraction, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, under the auspices of the Equal Justice Initiative, has added to the new life of downtown Montgomery, bringing a huge influx of visitor and tourists to the city. “The Equal Justice Initiative had been in Montgomery for 30 years, but flying low until 2017,” Cortell recounts. “The city sold them some property, and in April, 2018, they opened the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum. In 2018, they had 300,000 visitors and since the end of 2019, they’ve had 650,000 people visit.” The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, is a national memorial to commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States, and is intended to acknowledge past racial terrorism and advocate for social justice in America. The related Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, opened on the same six- acre complex near the former market site in Montgomery where enslaved African Americans