Freedom Monument Sculpture Park is now open in Montgomery, Alabama. Plan your visit at https://t.co/wjkHfxJUuW

Book your stay and reservations at the hotel’s new restaurant, AYA Soulful Dining. https://t.co/zAKOHMAPFE

Last week we announced the phase one opening of @ElevationHotel in Montgomery, Alabama. Elevation is a research center, convening space, art gallery, and theater with overnight accommodations designed to complement the experience for anyone coming to visit our Legacy Sites.

The Memorial Garden and Legacy Plaza are spaces for visitors to reflect on and process what they've experienced at the Legacy Sites. And now, they are in full bloom. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites today: https://t.co/FYammu8kz4

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. https://t.co/RbKZCxuA5N

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. Plan your visit to the Legacy Museum today: https://t.co/FYammu8kz4

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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice overlooks a hilltop in Montgomery. It's 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.

"Hallow" by Daniel Popper at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: https://t.co/FYammu8kz4

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

"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. https://t.co/WgvHUESBUF

For Juneteenth this year, we were joined by Cécile McLorin Salvant, Terence Blanchard, and the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers who all lent their incredible talents to our celebrations. Hosted at the Legacy Sites, we were thrilled to be able to bring such accomplished musical guests

Each of the models who posed for the sculpture is the descendant of a victim of racial terror lynching.

Titled "Arise: Ancestral Heirs Illuminate Truth," 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 them to do the same.

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.

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.

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. https://t.co/BVk9lbYqLX

"Praying Hands" by Samuel Kumi at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: https://t.co/FYammu8kz4

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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.