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For Maps detailing the locations and impact of racial terror lynchings, please visit the "Explore" section of our Lynching in America website at
https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/explore.
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has documented more than 6,500 racial terror lynchings of Black people in over 20 states between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and 1950. Millions more fled the South as refugees from racial terrorism, profoundly impacting the entire nation.
The legacy of racial terrorism, and racial terror lynchings, in America influenced the shaping of our nation's geography, politic practices, social environment, and economic conditions, with disparate impacts on the Black communities that are still evident today. Most critically, lynching reinforced a legacy of racial inequality that has never been adequately addressed in America.
For decades, there have been no national memorials or sustained efforts to acknowledge the victims of racial terror lynchings or reckon with its legacy.
In 2008, EJI launched a public education project focused on telling the truth about America’s racial history. Through research, writing, and community partnership, EJI works to document and memorialize the eras of enslavement, racial terror lynching, segregation, and mass incarceration.
Our Community Remembrance Project, including Community Soil Collections and Historical Marker Projects, has helped communities across the nation reckon with tragic histories of racial violence and acknowledge unresolved trauma through public memorials and local dialogue. In April 2018, this work culminated in the opening of two important cultural spaces: the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, both located in Montgomery, Alabama.
EJI is honored to partner with communities across the nation to support local community remembrance efforts that promote community dialogue, enable narrative change, and encourage a deeper commitment to advancing a new era of truth and justice in America.
