Ben Lebovitz
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Lynching in America - EJI with support from Google

The Equal Justice Initiative, with support from Google, is shedding new light on this chapter in American history with Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, an interactive experience that brings their groundbreaking research on this racial violence—and the personal stories behind it—online.

 

Interactive maps to highlight the data collected from EJI on the exact locations and names of where lynchings took place.  

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Discovering the human connection, personal stories from descendants of lynching victims and those affected by racial terror.
Photography from 5 different renowned black photographers to give each story a personal touch.  

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A film following one family and their personal rediscovery to the south for the first time in 100 years to see and learn more about their family member Thomas Miles who was lynched in Shreveport Louisiana. 

Lesson plans were created to help infuse this lost aspect of American History into everyday classrooms, each lesson plan created specifically for a set grade level. These lesson plans were created by a curriculum developer from the University of Oregon. 

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“Google has been able to take what we know about lynching, and what we have heard from the families, and what we have seen in the spaces and the communities where these acts of terror took place, and make that knowledge accessible to a lot more people”
— Equal Justice Initiative Founder and Executive Director Bryan Stevenson
 

Legacy of Lynching Exhibit organized by the Brooklyn Museum July 26 - Sept 3.