EJI has hired the same group that helped design the 9-11 memorial to construct the museum in downtown Montgomery. The museum will not only discuss slavery but its direct connection to socio ...

The museum is located on the site of a former slave warehouse in Montgomery, midway between a slave auction block and a train station where slaves were trafficked, and is expected to open in April. In ...

The Equal Justice Initiative will open the nation’s first memorial dedicated to lynching victims and a new museum dedicated to slavery on April 26 in Montgomery. The National Memorial for Peace ...

The accompanying museum will be situated adjacent to the EJI's offices downtown. The site is within 150 yards of one of the South's most prominent slave auction sites.

In 1860, Montgomery was home to largest slave population in the region – more than 23,000 people, two-thirds of the city’s population. Free Black residents were banned by state law.

The 40,000-square foot (3,700-square meter) Legacy Museum in downtown Montgomery Alabama sits on the site of a former cotton warehouse. “You are standing on the site where enslaved Black people ...

News Alabama’s Africatown can tell stories of slavery in ways few others can, officials say Updated: May. 05, 2021, 3:26 p.m. | Published: May. 05, 2021, 3:26 p.m.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (7News) — This Black History Month, the Sandy Spring Slave Museum and African Art Gallery in Montgomery County is celebrating 35 years. It is a gem in Maryland, rich in ...