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Raise Up, a sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas, on the grounds of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Dedicated to the victims of American white supremacy, the site demands a reckoning with with the lynching of thousands of black people in a decades-long campaign of racist terror.

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‘Why Did They Hate Us?’: Explaining the Lynching Memorial to My Son

How does one share this painful chapter of America’s past? An historian, and mother, describes the indelible impact of her family’s visit to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

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See America’s First Memorial to its 4,400 Lynching Victims

A new memorial and museum in Montgomery, Alabama, challenges the nation to acknowledge its crimes.

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The lynchers breaking into the New Orleans prison, 1891. (Credit: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The Grisly Story of One of America’s Largest Lynching

Innocent Italian-Americans got caught in the crosshairs of a bigoted mob.

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Migrant Mexican workers standing in line at the U.S. Public Health Station. The notion that Mexicans overburden the government, particularly in health, education and welfare, drove legislation to repatriate, and in some cases, sterilize immigrants.

The Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America

School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices Latinos have faced.

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