Minnesota Residents to Visit New Lynching Memorial

A group of nearly three dozen people have left Minnesota on a long bus ride to Alabama to attend the opening day of a new national memorial highlighting the history of lynching in the United States.

Minnesota Public Radio reports that the Duluth group is attending the Thursday opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.

The memorial features all the lynching cases the Equal Justice Initiative could document in recent years. The group has identified more than 4,000 African-Americans killed by mobs based on often incorrect or after-the-fact accusations of crimes against white people.

The new memorial includes 6-foot pillars meant to replicate the way victims were hanged.

The group began the journey by visiting a memorial for three victims of lynching in Duluth.

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Information from: Minnesota Public Radio News, http://www.mprnews.org

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