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A poignant memorial to the 4,400 black people lynched by whites up until 1950 is forcing America to confront its racist past, says Bette Browne.Americans are confronting the savage atrocities of their past at the first national memorial dedicated to the thousands of black men, women, and children lynched during a century of racial terror.The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, together with a museum to slavery and its legacy, is in Montgomery, Alabama, one of 12 southern states transformed into a landscape of torture between 1877 and 1950, when white Americans lynched 4,400 black Americans.But those victims are no longer merely numbers. Now, they have names. They are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, even whole families.Civil rights activist, Jesse Jackson, said the memorial would end America’s silence on lynching.“Whites wouldn’t talk about it, because of shame. Blacks wouldn’t talk about it, because of fear,” he said.Congressman John Lewis, who marched with the late Martin Luther King, for civil rights, in the 1960s, said: “It must never, ever happen again in America, or any place in the world.”The memorial and museum, a decade in the making and underpinned by years of research, was opened recently by the Equal Justice… Read full this story

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