"The lawyer and social-justice activist Bryan Stevenson first founded the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in 1989, when he was 29 years old. His goal was to provide legal representation to death-row inmates and others unfairly treated by the criminal-justice system. But in the decades that followed, EJI has pursued efforts outside the courts, in the form of memorials and museums, to end narratives of racial inequity and to memorialise historical harms."
"EJI's first Legacy Sites, the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opened in 2018 in Alabama's state capital of Montgomery. Through first-person historical narratives, documents, artefacts and art, the sites serve as memorials to victims of racial violence and chronicle the unresolved trauma of slavery, segregation and lynching. The Legacy Sites project expanded in 2024 with the 17-acre Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, which honours the 10 million Black people who were enslaved in the US with site-specific works created by contemporary artists."
Bryan Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in 1989 to provide legal representation to death-row inmates and others unfairly treated by the criminal-justice system. EJI expanded beyond litigation into memorialisation, opening the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery in 2018 to document slavery, segregation and lynching through first-person narratives, documents, artefacts and art. The project grew in 2024 with the 17-acre Freedom Monument Sculpture Park honoring the estimated 10 million enslaved Black people via site-specific contemporary artworks. Hundreds of thousands have visited, with complementary facilities and new exhibitions continuing to open.
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