It is sad to think about, but, to see the memorial to those lynched in anger and hate is a mark on the conscience.
It changes things a bit. The US Civil War (click here) was brutal. There were 620,000 men killed in that war, the majority were Union soldiers. The deaths in the Confederacy were about 16 percent less. But, the war and the deaths in that war were carried out because of treatment these people. They are very important people and to realize the impact of their experience in the USA is now memorialized is as important as them.
They were the reason people of moral intent put forward a very different vision of the US economy without slavery. The practice of slavery and the obscurity of their identity were both obliterated. They are still separate, aren't they? A new museum whereby the lynched are memorialized is separate from any other museum in the country that memorializes the Civil War. That remains a very sad reality, still today.
The war was memorialized in most Civil War museums, not the lynched as an impetus to war.
It changes things a bit. The US Civil War (click here) was brutal. There were 620,000 men killed in that war, the majority were Union soldiers. The deaths in the Confederacy were about 16 percent less. But, the war and the deaths in that war were carried out because of treatment these people. They are very important people and to realize the impact of their experience in the USA is now memorialized is as important as them.
They were the reason people of moral intent put forward a very different vision of the US economy without slavery. The practice of slavery and the obscurity of their identity were both obliterated. They are still separate, aren't they? A new museum whereby the lynched are memorialized is separate from any other museum in the country that memorializes the Civil War. That remains a very sad reality, still today.
The war was memorialized in most Civil War museums, not the lynched as an impetus to war.
There is (click here) a reckoning taking place in America over how we remember our history. Much of the focus has been on whether or not to take down monuments that celebrate the Confederacy. But this story is about a new monument going up in Montgomery, Alabama. It documents the lynchings of thousands of African-American men, women and children during a 70 year period following the Civil War.
The project is being led by criminal defense attorney Bryan Stevenson, who is determined to shed light on a dark period in our past that most people would rather forget. It's a shocking and disturbing reality that lynchings were not isolated murders committed only by men in white hoods in the middle of the night. Often, they were public crimes, witnessed -- even celebrated -- by thousands of people. Stevenson believes if we want to heal racial divisions we must educate Americans -- of every color and creed....
