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This Week in Alabama: Confederate Memorial Day & New Lynching Museum Opens [View all]
Source: AL.com
Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama: What's open, what's closed for state holiday
If you were hoping to do business with the state of Alabama today, you're out of luck.
Monday, April 23 is Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama, meaning state offices are closed.
Monday, April 23 is Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama, meaning state offices are closed.
Look inside the new lynching museum, opening Thursday in Montgomery
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is a project of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a legal advocacy group in Montgomery. The organization says the combined museum and memorial will be the nation's first site to document racial inequality in America from slavery through Jim Crow to the issues of today.
"In the American South, we don't talk about slavery. We don't have monuments and memorials that confront the legacy of lynching. We haven't really confronted the difficulties of segregation. And because of that, I think we are still burdened by that history," said EJI executive director Bryan Stevenson.
"In the American South, we don't talk about slavery. We don't have monuments and memorials that confront the legacy of lynching. We haven't really confronted the difficulties of segregation. And because of that, I think we are still burdened by that history," said EJI executive director Bryan Stevenson.
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