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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice displays 805 hanging steel rectangles, each representing a county in the United States where a documented lynching took place and, for each county, the names of those lynched. The memorial hopes that communities will take their slab and install it.

May 30, 2022•1 min read

Fun Fact: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice displays 805 hanging steel rectangles, each representing a county in the United States where a documented lynching took place and, for each county, the names of those lynched. The memorial hopes that communities will take their slab and install it.

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