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Many Americans understate the violent resistance to civil rights by institutions, officials and supporters of segregation.

Teenage boys wave Confederate flags during a protest against school integration in Montgomery, Alabama, 1963. (© Flip Schulke/CORBIS/Getty Images.)

June 30, 2017

The court found prison mental health services are "horrendously inadequate" and led to a "skyrocketing suicide rate."

June 28, 2017
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Equal Justice Initiative believes that in order to heal the wounds from our present, we must face our past.
Located in Montgomery, Alabama, this will be the country's first national memorial to victims of lynching.
The one-of-a-kind museum will explore America's legacy of slavery, racial terror, segregation, and mass incarceration.
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EJI has documented over 4000 racial terror lynchings in the United States between the Civil War and World War II.
Outlines the latest reforms that aid children caught in the American criminal justice system and the work that remains to be done.
We are committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment, challenging cruel conditions of confinement, and confronting America’s long history of racial inequality and injustice.