On an elevated and serene 6-acre site in Montgomery, Ala., and in a former warehouse in the city's downtown, one of the most brutal stories in American history is now being told. More than 4,000 African-Americans were lynched in the U.S. between 1877 and 1950. The slaughtered included men, women, children-even whole families-that white mobs and police hanged, drowned, beat to death, or set afire with impunity and outright legal sanction. Even though the savagery often took place in public town squares, and was sometimes advertised in newspapers beforehand, the names of the victims and the circumstances of their death were largely lost to history.
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