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Topic: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Over 800 corten-steel monuments, one for each county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place with the names of the lynching victims engraved on the columns are on display at The National Memorial For Peace And Justice, the nations first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people and people terrorized by lynching in Montgomery, Alabama on July 6, 2018. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Building new monuments for a new America

Elizabeth Alexander