The Legacy Sites
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A museum, memorial, and monument in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to documenting our country’s history of racial injustice. Created by @eji.org
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Join us at the Legacy Sites: a museum, memorial, and new monument in Montgomery, Alabama, that document our country’s history of slavery, lynching, and racial hierarchy, so we can begin an era of truth telling and repair.
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Elevation Convening Center and Hotel is now open to guests in Montgomery. This research center, convening space, art gallery, and theater with overnight accommodations will provide comfort to the thousands that visit our Legacy Sites.
EJI Announces the Opening of Elevation in Montgomery, Alabama
We are pleased to announce today's Phase One opening of Elevation.
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Our Transatlantic Slave Trade exhibit features sculptures by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo in remembrance of more than 12 million African men, women, and children who were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Americas.

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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice overlooks a hilltop in Montgomery. It is the nation's first comprehensive memorial dedicated to the legacy of Black Americans who were enslaved, terrorized by lynching, humiliated by racial segregation, and presumed guilty and dangerous.
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"Hallow" by Daniel Popper at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park.

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This quote is displayed in the Reflection Room at the Legacy Museum.

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"If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs." — Mary McLeod Bethune
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"When people allow themselves to be governed by fear and anger, they begin to tolerate things they wouldn’t otherwise tolerate." Hear Bryan Stevenson's conversation with the New York Times on the impact of truth-telling in the current moment.
Opinion | Trump vs. Truth: The Fight for America’s History
Jeffrey Toobin talks with Bryan Stevenson about surviving the politics of fear in 2025.
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Cadets piece depicts community members who are doing the critical work of reckoning with our painful history of racial violence and bigotry, and encouraging those around the to do the same. Each of the models who posed for the sculpture is the descendant of a victim of racial terror lynching.
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Here, we celebrate hundreds of community coalitions across the country that have partnered with EJI to install historical markers that memorialize victims of racial terror lynchings. In the middle of this section is a sculpture by Branly Cadet. Titled "Arise: Ancestral Heirs Illuminate Truth."
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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in 2018. It is a sacred space for truth telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy.

In 2022, we expanded the National Memorial to include a "Community Reckoning" section.
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EJI is bringing musical legends Branford Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma to Montgomery for an extraordinary collaboration.

Get your tickets for the concert on October 11 at 7:30pm.
EJI Brings Branford Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma to Montgomery, AL
Join us on October 11, 2025 at 7:30 pm
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"Praying Hands" by Samuel Kumi at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.

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On the night of her arrest, local activists began organizing what would become the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The portraits of those arrested during the Montgomery Bus Boycott are hanging in the Legacy Museum in Downtown, Montgomery.
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“I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it any more.” - Rosa Parks recalling that she didn't refuse to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 because she was tired. She did it because she was tired of giving in.
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"Breaking Bondage" by Farai Tigere Tandi at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Wretha Hudson, 73, discovers a marker commemorating lynchings in Lee County, Texas, where her father's family lived before Alabama, while visiting the National Memorial For Peace And Justice.

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Visitors engage with the jars of soil at the Legacy Museum, each one memorializing a Black victim who lost their life to racial terror violence.

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"Waiting for Auction" by Vinnie Bagwell at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.

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"While [Bryan Stevenson's] book powerfully describes the EJI’s work in preventing wrongful convictions, The Legacy Museum is a way for visitors to step into the narrative themselves and experience an immersive account of the country’s injustices." - Alabama News Center
The Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama, offer a look into stories that shaped the South - Alabama News Center
Three Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama -- The Legacy Museum, The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park -- document the country’s history of racial injustice.
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EJI is delighted to welcome all those joining us for Juneteenth today. We will be offering free admission to The Legacy Museum, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in honor of Juneteenth.
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In celebration of Juneteenth, EJl is offering free admission to the Legacy Sites tomorrow. Visit the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in downtown Montgomery. No tickets required for entry. Plan your visit at legacysites.eji.org