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Equal Justice Initiative Community Remembrance Project

  • Floyd, Alabama - 02-17-2016 - This is the site of a lynching. This was for a project undertaken by The Equal Justice Initiative. - Photo By Ozier Muhammad
  • Floyd, Alabama - 02-17-2016 - Soil collection sites in southern Alabama for a project undertaken by The Equal Justice Initiative. This patch of soil is where Berney, was hung for allegedly killing a white farmer, John Christizberg, Nov. 10, 1912. - Photo By Ozier Muhammad
  • Floyd, Ala - 02-12-16 - Julia Ware, 25, collects soil at the sight where a black man named Berney was lynched, on Nov 10, 1912. Her nephew, Jai Lee, 3, tagged along. She was one of many volunteers who colleced soil collecting for the lynch site project for the Equal Justice Initiative. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Thomaston, Ala - 02-12-16 - This is the site where Rufus Lesseur, was first detained and later lynched on August 16, 1904. He was accused of raping a white woman on Aug. 14 of that year. This is a soil collecting for the lynch site project, for The Equal Justice Initiative. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Thomaston, Ala - 02-12-16 - A portal inside the makeshift jail where Lesseur was detained before he was lynched. Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Thomaston, Alabama - 02-17-2016 - The pallet, in which Lesseur might have slept on as he was detained on a rape charge.- Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Thomaston, Alabama - 02-17-2016 - Looking at the door from the pallet, in which Lesseur might have slept, as he was detained for on a rape charge.- Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Thomaston, Ala - 02-12-16 - This capped jar is the type which used and inscribed the names of lynch victims. This capped jar was later filled with soil from this site where Mr.Lesseur, was first detained and later lynched on August 16, 1904. He was accused of raping a white woman on Aug. 14 of that year. This is a soil collecting for the lynch site project, for The Equal Justice Initiative. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Thomaston, Ala - 02-12-16 - This is the site where Rufus Lesseur, was first detained and later lynched on August 16, 1904. He was accused of raping a white woman on Aug. 14 of that year. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Montgomery, Ala - 02-12-16 - Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of EJI, site in a common area in the headquarters, to view with others a video about the lynch site project. The official title of the project is The Community Remembrance Project. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Montgomery, Ala - 02-12-16 - Mr. Stevenson talks about the Community Remembrance Project to an audience of volunteers. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Montgomery, Ala - 02-11-16 - Mr. Stevenson talks about the Community Remembrance Project to an audience of volunteers and supporters. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Montgomery, Ala - 02-11-16 - Visitors to EJI, take a look at capped jars with the names of victims of lynching inscribed. This was a temporary display of what eventually will be displayed in The National Memorial For Peace and Justice, that will be located yards from the headquarters of the Equal Justice Initiative. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
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  • Montgomery, Ala - 02-12-16 -Mr. Stevenson talks to an audience of supports and volunteers. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Montgomery, Ala - 02-12-16 - Left to right: Mr. Stevenson talking to Anthony Ray Hinton, Community Educator, was falsely accused of committing two murders outside of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1985. He was wrongly convicted and spent nearly 30 years on Alabama's death row before he was exonerated and freed in April 2015, with the help of EJI. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Montgomery, Ala - 02-12-16 - Mr. Stevenson in a light moment with volunteers at EJI headquarters. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
  • Montgomery, Ala - 02-12-16 - Sia Sanneh, Jennifer Taylor and Ben Howard, all lawyers, and on the staff of EJI, as they collected soil at a lynch site, near downtown, in this city. - Credit Photo by Ozier Muhammad
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