National Memorial for Peace and Justice Coverage

Lynching memorial opens as Congressman John Lewis reflects on nation's past

Civil Rights icon Congressman John Lewis spoke to WRAL News recently about the The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which will serve as a monument to the victims of lynching in America.

Lena Tillett, WRAL anchor/reporter

Lynching memorial opens in Alabama

A new lynching memorial has opened in Alabama and some say they hope it will help the nation heal its wounds from the era.

Lynching memorial opens in Alabama

A statue at the new lynching memorial in Alabama.

Lynching memorial opens in Alabama and U.S. has never seen anything like it

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- In a plain brown building sits an office run by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, a place for people who have been held accountable for their crimes and duly expressed remorse.

CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, New York Times

Alabama lynching memorial interior

Eight hundred weathered steel columns, each one etched with the names of a lynching victim, hang from the roof of the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., April 20, 2018. The six-acre site overlooking the state capital demands a reckoning with with one of the nation's least recognized atrocities, a decades-long campaign of racist terror. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)

Alabama lynching memorial

Eight hundred weathered steel columns, each one etched with the names of a lynching victim, hang from the roof of the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., April 20, 2018. The six-acre site overlooking the state capital demands a reckoning with with one of the nation's least recognized atrocities, a decades-long campaign of racist terror. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)