![]() ![]() It has the names of all of these victims of lynching, but it also has quotations from Toni Morrison and Elizabeth Alexander. ![]() But part of what Bryan Stevenson has done is to re‑narrate the space by putting the memorial at the center of it, and it has‑‑and it's a word‑filled memorial. So it's situated physically in this space where not only the history of slavery and the history‑‑the relationship between that and the history of mass incarceration is very clear. And there's a‑‑it's catty‑corner to a parole office, and so it's situated in this place that has‑‑and, of course, Montgomery was one of the capitals with the Confederacy. It's around the corner from the Hank Williams Museum. It is‑‑you know, it's one exit away from the Confederate Museum. ![]() ![]() PERRY: It is so profound, and, you know, there's a couple of things about where it's situated in Montgomery that I think are significant. ![]()
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