"The new museum and memorial in Montgomery are necessary first stops for a civil rights tour...They show that the devaluation of black life upon which slavery relied did not just evaporate, but haunts the country still." - Brent Staples in The New York Times Opinion Section.

"I don't think we've actually done a very good job of acknowledging the pain and agony, the suffering, the humiliation, the complete denial of humanity that slavery created for black people on this continent." - Bryan Stevenson to NPR.

EJI applauds the Montgomery Advertiser's honest reckoning with its shameful past. Truth must come before reconciliation.

Open Today in Montgomery, Alabama. The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. Please join us.

Doubt by Titus Kaphar on display at The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. Please come visit the new museum in Montgomery, Alabama.

"We’re not doomed by this history. We’re not even defined by it. But we do have to face it.”

"It takes a little bit of courage to tell the truth, but when it's done right, there's something so much better on the other side." The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration tells the truth about our nation's history of racial injustice with the hope of reconciliation.

The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. Confronting the legacy of racial terror. Opening Thursday, April 26th.

VIDEO: Watch Bryan Stevenson and Anthony Ray Hinton discuss The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and The Sun Does Shine on CBS This Morning.

Why build a national memorial and museum about America's history of racial inequality in Montgomery, Alabama?

Coosa Street view of The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration.

Please watch a new video about EJI's The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. Construction is underway in Montgomery, Alabama!