Thousands were lynched in the 19th and 20th centuries
Monument Park outside the Memorial
Enslaved African men and women in a sculpture by the Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo
Each monument represent a U.S. county with the name(s) men and women who were lynched there
800 markers are designed to symbolize thousands of racial terror lynching victims in the United States and the counties and states where this terrorism took place
The duplicate markers were arranged by state so that you could easily seek a desired county
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