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Fifty years ago today, Dr. King was killed in Memphis, where he’d come to support black workers striking for job safety and better wages.
April 4, 2018
EJI is hosting a series of events to celebrate the opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum.
April 3, 2018
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The one-of-a-kind museum will explore America's legacy of slavery, racial terror, segregation, and mass incarceration.
Located in Montgomery, Alabama, this will be the country's first national memorial to victims of lynching.
The need to confront America's history of racial injustice is more urgent now than ever.
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EJI has documented over 4000 racial terror lynchings in the United States between the Civil War and World War II.
Outlines the latest reforms that aid children caught in the American criminal justice system and the work that remains to be done.
We are committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment, challenging cruel conditions of confinement, and confronting America’s long history of racial inequality and injustice.
