City of Jacksonville issued the following announcement.
An exhibition that seeks to spark an honest conversation about the legacy of racial injustice in America today. Developed in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and the Brooklyn Museum, this exhibition presents EJI’s groundbreaking research into the history of lynching.
At the same time, the exhibition highlights EJI’s founding of The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, commemorating victims of racial terror lynching, and an accompanying museum that explores the legacy of slavery, segregation, and mass incarceration, which both recently opened in Montgomery, Alabama.
The Legacy of Lynching exhibition includes illustrated text panels, videos and an interactive map provided by EJI and the Brooklyn Museum, all of which provide a national perspective on the history and legacy of racial terror lynching from 1877-1950.
There are also illustrated text panels and video clips of oral histories that tell the story of racial terror lynching in Duval County, and soil collected from local lynching sites will be on display.
In addition, the exhibition showcases a selection of thematic visual artwork created especially for the exhibition by African-American artist Marsha Hatcher, inspired by the narrative of racial terror lynching in America.
An extra copy of components of this exhibit are traveling throughout Duval County. Click here for more information.
The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America was organized in collaboration with the Jacksonville Community Remembrance Project, an initiative of 904WARD, and is supported in part by a grant from the Community Foundation for Northeast Florida.
Additional funding was provided through a grant from the Florida Humanities Council with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special thanks to Baptist Health for additional support.
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