Birmingham, AL

Today we visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum. I don’t know what I was expecting to see or feel before I visited these museums and memorials, but I certainly was not expecting the impact that it had on me. I was genuinely heartbroken seeing the abundance jars of soil from the lynching sites of various African Americans who were publicly killed due to false accusations made by white supremacists. I also was able to read letters from imprisoned victims asking Bryan Stevenson to represent them at court. What really shocked me was that some of the dates on the letters were from 2013. This is not a long time ago at all, and it is heartbreaking to see that even after all these years the systems corruption still impacts so many people brutally today. The dehumanization of these individuals was so saddening to see and hear because these people have endured so much. I was genuinely speechless and filled with tears after seeing these museums and memorials.

Hannah Kuruvilla

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