Last year we organized the exhibition The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America,

Last year we organized the exhibition The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, a partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative in advance of their opening a national monument to victims of lynching and a museum exploring the legacy of slavery, segregation, and mass incarceration. The Memorial for Peace and Justice opened last week in Montgomery, Alabama, and we congratulate EJI for their legal work, historical research, and organizing to make this necessary memorial a reality. This photograph by Kris Graves, now in our collection, documents Mamie Kirkland, who fled with her family to Illinois from Ellisville, Mississippi in 1912 under threat of racial violence, and experienced several subsequent acts of racial terror in the Midwest, forcing her family to flee again further north. Mamie’s story is one of the narratives explored in EJI’s museum, and one that we must face and never forget. Posted by Carmen HermoKris Graves (American, born 1982). Tarabu and Mamie Kirkland in the Kitchen, Los Angeles, California, 2017. Chromogenic photographs. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 2017.25.1. © artist or artist’s estate ⇨ The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. -- source link
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