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Lessons from the National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Inspired by her visit to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Ms. Waters will review the history of anti-Black attacks in the USA and ask the critical question - where do we go from here?

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (“lynching museum”) honors the over 6,000 victims of racial terror lynching, and within its walls, holds a world of seldom-learned history. In this talk and slide show, you will have the opportunity to explore how the South, despite having lost the Civil War, relied on unrestrained lynching to maintain the racial hierarchy and how throughout America, violent resistance to Black progress persists to this day. You will discover how the 13th and 15th amendments, ostensibly drafted to emancipate and enfranchise Blacks, backfired and inflicted new cruelties on Blacks. View images of the National Memorial itself and seldom-seen photos of the anti-lynching movement. Explore how law and order politics vilified the Civil Rights movement and propelled the nation into the War on Drugs. Consider evidence for the claim that the War on Drugs was really designed as a War on Blacks. Knowing our history, where do we go from here?

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