LYNCHING IN AMERICA: CONFRONTING THE LEGACY OF RACIAL TERROR

2016, Equal Justice Initiative with support from Google

Building off of the Equal Justice Initiative’s groundbreaking and crucial project documenting the history of racial terror lynchings in America, I was honored to be a part of a team telling the stories of victims and survivors of lynchings. Based on EJI’s original publication of the same name, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror reveals both the scope of lynchings of African Americans between 1877 and 1950 and the profound way in which this era continues to shape our nation, particularly in our criminal justice system.  Through an interactive, multimedia storytelling platform, we illuminated these stories through audio, photo essays, documentary film and eventually a traveling museum exhibit that launched at the Brooklyn Museum and went on to be a part of EJI’s The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration in Montgomery, AL.