Popis: |
In the past few decades, community organizations and museums throughout the South, such as the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center and the Equal Justice Initiative’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice, have worked to memorialize lynching victims and encourage a multiracial, public reckoning with lynching and its legacies. The epilogue reflects on these and other memorialization efforts and considers how well they address the persistent legacies of lynchings past and present. Despite hard-fought battles for historical markers and official apologies, the reluctance to revisit that history and the absence of substantive restitution for communities impacted by lynching—and, of course, the ongoing problem of anti-Black violence—show how lynching still intrudes upon the present. |