The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 02/10/2026Montgomery Square, our newest Legacy Site, is on Montgomery Street, the very street where thousands of civil rights advocates marched the 54-mile journey from Selma to the Alabama Capitol to push for the right to vote in March 1965. 22410
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 01/10/2026Experience an unforgettable journey through American history at EJI's Legacy Sites. Plan your visit: legacysites.eji.org 11911
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 24/09/2026The power of history is in telling the truth. Being honest about our nation’s history is the first step towards recovery and reconciliation. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, is a sacred space for all. 12618
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 21/09/2026At our Legacy Museum, visitors can see 800 jars of soil collected from lynching sites across the country. Part of our Community Remembrance Project, the jars provide a tangible way for communities and Museum visitors to confront the legacy of racial terror lynchings. 24631
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 27/08/2026Breathtaking art and original artifacts bring to life the history of the 10 million Black people who were enslaved in America. The National Monument to Freedom—displaying over 100,000 names of formerly enslaved Black people—is the heart of this space. Plan your visit: legacysites.eji.org 23525
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 26/08/2026170-year-old plantation dwellings sit at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, located on the banks of the Alabama River. Artifacts, like these dwellings, help visitors understand both the brutality of enslavement and the humanity of the enslaved. Plan your visit today: legacysites.eji.org/visit/ 096
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 10/08/2026“Grounded in the Stars” by Thomas J. Price stands atop Elevation Convening Center and Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites, and your stay at Elevation: legacysites.eji.org/visit/ 054
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 08/08/2026Four spaces. One powerful experience. Journey through history at the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, and Montgomery Square. 22317
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 06/08/2026The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a sacred space for truth telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy. Plan your visit: legacysites.eji.org 066
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 01/08/2026At Montgomery Square, visitors explore the Montgomery decade that changed the world. From 1955, with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, to 1965, with the Selma to Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act, our city shaped the civil rights movement, changing the country and our world. 184
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 29/07/2026The Legacy Museum takes visitors on a journey through American history, tracing the myth of racial hierarchy through its tragic evolution, from enslavement to mass incarceration. The Museum begins with an education about the Middle Passage, which claimed the lives of two million kidnapped Africans. 12312
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 08/07/2026800 corten steel monuments hang at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama—one for each county in the U.S. where a racial terror lynching took place. 23815
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 17/06/2026Join us this Juneteenth (Friday, June 19) at the Legacy Sites. We are offering free admission in honor of the holiday and hope you will join us at all four Legacy Sites—The Legacy Museum, The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, and Montgomery Square. 22911
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 16/05/2026Visiting Montgomery, Alabama? Montgomery Square is a must-see. EJI's newest Legacy Site tells the story of the Montgomery decade that changed the world. Plan your visit: montgomerysquare.eji.org/about/ 034
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 16/05/2026Visiting Montgomery, Alabama? Montgomery Square is a must-see. EJI's newest Legacy Site tells the story of the Montgomery decade that changed the world. Plan your visit: montgomerysquare.eji.org/about/ 076
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 15/05/2026Visiting Montgomery, Alabama? Montgomery Square is a must-see. EJI's newest Legacy Site tells the story of the Montgomery decade that changed the world. Plan your visit: montgomerysquare.eji.org/about/ 12412
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 03/05/2026We were thrilled to dedicate Montgomery Square, the newest addition to the Legacy Sites, in the presence of civil rights leaders and foot soldiers. Music of freedom songs filled the air. Learn more and visit: montgomerysquare.eji.org 072
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 24/04/2026More than 4,400 Black people killed in racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950 are remembered at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. More than 800 corten steel monuments hold their names–one for each county where a racial terror lynching took place in the US. 15322
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 22/04/2026The Legacy Museum is situated on the site of an old cotton warehouse—it invites visitors to reckon with our history of racial injustice exactly where that very history was lived. Plan your visit, engage with history, and begin an era of truth telling: legacysites.eji.org 02812
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 01/04/2026EJI's dedication of Montgomery Square ended with a freedom song, led by Jeanette Howard-Moore, Viola Bradford, Margaret Howard, and Bryan Stevenson, along with the choir from Booker T. Washington Magnet High School. Learn more: eji.org/news/eji-ded... 041
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 13/03/2026Montgomery Square is dedicated to the Montgomery decade that changed the world. From 1955 to 1965, Black residents in Montgomery stood up with incredible courage and determination, sparking a global movement that changed the world. Visit and learn more: montgomerysquare.eji.org/ 0276
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 25/02/2026"Hanging Tree" by Charles Gaines at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. Learn more about the piece and plan your visit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZO1... 034
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 10/02/2026Steps outside the Legacy Museum is our memorial honoring victims of racial terror lynchings during Reconstruction (1865-1876). This critical time period is often over looked even though it had a profound impact on life in the U.S. 15625
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 04/02/2026"One of the most moving places that I have ever been to." "Powerful and heartbreaking. A must visit." "Just go." These reflections from visitors capture what it is like to visit the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. 13115
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 28/01/2026“Mama I Hurt My Hand” by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites: legacysites.eji.org/ 02211
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 25/01/2026Located in Montgomery, Alabama, the Legacy Museum offers visitors an immersive journey through the history of the destructive violence that shaped our nation, from the slave trade, to the era of Jim Crow and racial terror lynchings, to our current mass incarceration crisis. 12312
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 22/01/2026The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a sacred space for truth telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy. Plan your visit: legacysites.eji.org/ 22010
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 16/12/2025"Reflection of Self," by Lionel Smit at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites: legacysites.eji.org 📷 Stephen Gabris 0179
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 14/12/2025The National Monument to Freedom stands inscribed with over 100,000 names that represent the four million formerly enslaved Black people who won freedom after the Civil War. Plan your visit: legacysites.eji.org 📷 Stephen Gabris 02913
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 09/12/2025A tragic, false narrative of racial difference was created in America that has resulted in centuries of racial bigotry and injustice. The Legacy Museum traces the evolution of this dehumanizing myth from our nation’s founding to today. 193
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 06/12/2025The National Memorial For Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, is the nation's first comprehensive memorial dedicated to the legacy of Black Americans who were enslaved, terrorized by lynching, humiliated by racial segregation, and presumed guilty and dangerous. 13921
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 29/11/2025"Brick House" by Simone Leigh sits at the entrance of Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. Overlooking the Alabama River, this space honors the lives and resilience of the 10 million Black people who were enslaved in America. Plan a visit to the Legacy Sites: legacysites.eji.org 📷 Steve Gabris 03121
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 17/10/2025Book your stay and reservations at the hotel's new restaurant, AYA Soulful Dining here: www.elevationhotel.com/ 062
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 17/10/2025Last week we announced the phase one opening of Elevation in Montgomery, Alabama. Elevation is a research center, convening space, art gallery, and theater with overnight accommodations which was designed to complement and enrich the experience for anyone coming to visit our Legacy Sites. 183
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 11/10/2025The Memorial Garden and Legacy Plaza are spaces for visitors to reflect on and process what they've experienced at the Legacy Sites. And now, they are in full bloom. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites today: legacysites.eji.org 0278
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 06/10/2025Our Transatlantic Slave Trade exhibit features sculptures by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo in remembrance of more than 12 million African men, women, and children who were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Americas. Plan your visit to the Legacy Museum today: legacysites.eji.org 03312
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 26/09/2025The National Memorial for Peace and Justice overlooks a hilltop in Montgomery. It is the nation's first comprehensive memorial dedicated to the legacy of Black Americans who were enslaved, terrorized by lynching, humiliated by racial segregation, and presumed guilty and dangerous. 13414
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 18/09/2025"Hallow" by Daniel Popper at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org 04122
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 15/09/2025"If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs." — Mary McLeod Bethune 13320
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 28/08/2025The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in 2018. It is a sacred space for truth telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy. In 2022, we expanded the National Memorial to include a "Community Reckoning" section. 13112
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 22/08/2025"Praying Hands" by Samuel Kumi at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites at the link in bio. 13512
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 15/08/2025“I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it any more.” - Rosa Parks recalling that she didn't refuse to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 because she was tired. She did it because she was tired of giving in. 22114
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 07/08/2025"Breaking Bondage" by Farai Tigere Tandi at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org 02415
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 31/07/2025Wretha Hudson, 73, discovers a marker commemorating lynchings in Lee County, Texas, where her father's family lived before Alabama, while visiting the National Memorial For Peace And Justice. Plan your visit to the Memorial, and the other Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org 02710
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 24/07/2025Visitors engage with the jars of soil at the Legacy Museum, each one memorializing a Black victim who lost their life to racial terror violence. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org 33222
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 17/07/2025"Waiting for Auction" by Vinnie Bagwell at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org 12619
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 19/06/2025EJI is delighted to welcome all those joining us for Juneteenth today. We will be offering free admission to The Legacy Museum, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in honor of Juneteenth. 042
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 18/06/2025In celebration of Juneteenth, EJl is offering free admission to the Legacy Sites tomorrow. Visit the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in downtown Montgomery. No tickets required for entry. Plan your visit at legacysites.eji.org 052
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 24/01/2025The Legacy Sites are still open following a rare winter storm in Alabama. 1223
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 31/12/2024In Two Canoe, by Wangechi Mutu, at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. [Photo by Human Pictures] 1102