Equal Justice Initiative

We work to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial injustice. Led by Bryan Stevenson. Creators of the @legacysites #justmercy

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Montgomery Square is now open. Visit and learn more: https://t.co/MrjwYvFa5U

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On this day in 1958, a bomb exploded outside Bethel Street Baptist Church in one of Birmingham, Alabama's Black neighborhoods. The church pastor, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, was a civil rights activist working to eliminate segregation in the area.
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On this day in 1962, a hotel in Atlanta refused to provide a room to Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Ralph Bunche because he was Black.
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that Alabama’s mental health care for people in state prisons is constitutionally inadequate, identifying “serious deficiencies” in ADOC’s mental health care.
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On this day in 1911, two Black men were lynched in Walton County, Georgia, by a white mob after the trial judge refused to allow state troops to protect them.
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Watch Bryan Stevenson on confronting the legacy of slavery in America, the importance of truth telling as a step towards reconciliation, and the changing landscape of Montgomery, Alabama, as a result of EJI's work.

https://t.co/ZoXas13mPr

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On this day in 1844, the Oregon Territory passed its first of many laws prohibiting free Black people from moving into the area and authorizing violators to be whipped as punishment.
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On this day in 2013, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act and effectively gutted one of the nation’s most important and successful civil rights laws.
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For the first time, local Black residents learned that the Confederacy had lost the war and that they were free under the Emancipation Proclamation.

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On this day in 1943, white U.S. military police fired on Black U.S. soldiers stationed during World War II in the village of Bamber Bridge, England, killing a Black soldier named Private William Crossland.
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On this day in 1908, nine Black men were lynched while the entire Black community was terrorized by white residents of Sabine County, Texas.
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On this day in 1940, a young Black man named Jesse Thornton was abducted and lynched in Alabama after he addressed a white Alabama police officer without the title "Mr.” No one was ever prosecuted for his death.
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On this day in 1940, NAACP leader and voting rights activist Elbert Williams was abducted and lynched by a group of white men, including the local sheriff, in Brownsville, Tennessee.
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[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

Montgomery Square, the newest @eji_org Legacy Site, memorializes the Montgomery bus boycott and modern Civil Rights Movement. It is also a warning to all of us. I talked with Bryan Stevenson about memory, erasure, and what history demands for @GuardianUS. https://t.co/hjUol9dwvk

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

For the first time, local Black residents learned that the Confederacy had lost the war and that they were free under the Emancipation Proclamation.

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On this day in 1865, after white Southerners had extended the enslavement of countless Black people by concealing the Civil War’s end for months, Union troops arrived in Texas. #Juneteenth
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[The Legacy Sites @LegacySites]

Join us this Juneteenth (Friday, June 19) at the Legacy Sites. Admission is free in honor of the holiday and hope you will join us at all four Legacy Sites—The Legacy Museum, The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, and Montgomery Square.

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

As the Trump administration tries to erase the legacy of slavery and lynching from the nation’s museums, Bryan Stevenson’s Legacy Sites are confronting America’s full past head-on.

Hear more on this week’s “More To The Story With Al Letson.”

Listen here: https://t.co/FG8nsXldLB

[Reveal @reveal]

The legendary racial justice activist Bryan Stevenson says today’s narrative struggle over the history of slavery and lynching in America is a generational civil rights battle.

Hear why on this week’s special episode of “More To The Story": https://t.co/gel9ZVJLsY

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On this day in 1963, law enforcement officers in Gadsden, Alabama, used electric cattle prods on and arrested over 450 Black protesters who were holding a sit-in to oppose segregation.
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On this day in 2015, a 21-year-old white man opened fire on a group of Black worshippers at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people.
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