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People lynched in Lowndes County including those on the marker above.
Photographer: Mark Hilton
Taken: May 31, 2018
Caption: People lynched in Lowndes County including those on the marker above.
Additional Description: Part of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, Alabama, the memorial is dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence. One of the over 800 corten steel monuments, one for each county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place.
Submitted: May 31, 2018, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p428408
File Size: 12.648 Megabytes

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