Last year I participated in a Civil Rights Memorial Journey through the American South and visited an organization called the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). One of their current projects is an interesting parallel to our conversations in Berlin about memorial culture and how countries acknowledge (or don't) their collective shame.
The two articles below talk about EJI's work on a National Lynching Memorial, to be built in Montgomery, Alabama.
https://eji.org/news/eji-announces-plans-to-build-museum-and-national-lynching-memorial
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/us/memorial-alabama-victims-lynching.html
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