Traveling South - Montgomery, AL

We started our Florida camping trip this year in Montgomery, Al.  We especially liked the National Memorial to Peace and Justice and the Southern Poverty Law Center's Civil Rights Memorial. We started on Thursday, January 23 with the Montgomery Visitor Center in the old train station.  Then briefly visited the Hank Williams Museum which features the1955 Blue Cadillac in which he died at age 30.   Hank Jr drove the same car to high school in Nashville.

Dexter Ave Baptist Church

SPLC Memorial Water Wall

Chaney, Goodman and Schwermer

Emmett Till

My small contribution counts

The Peace with Justice Memorial is an outdoor memorial garden featuring hanging obelisks to those who were lunched between 1877 and 1950.  Each county where a lynching has been documented was represented by an obelisk with the names & dates of each person etched in the metal. It is a Holy Shrine to those whose lives were so cruelly and unjustly taken.

Tragically, we know that this kind of terror is not over, will not be over until our national, state and local justice system is fair and equitable for all.  There is now not equal justice under the law.

Peace and Justice - Slavery

Memorial to every person lynched in every county in the country 

Peace and Justice Memorial

Peace and Justice - Civil Rights