The Legacy Sites
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A museum, memorial, and monument in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to documenting our country’s history of racial injustice. Created by @eji.org
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The Legacy Sites
@legacysites.eji.org
· Nov 15
Join us at the Legacy Sites: a museum, memorial, and new monument in Montgomery, Alabama, that document our country’s history of slavery, lynching, and racial hierarchy, so we can begin an era of truth telling and repair.
Last week we announced the phase one opening of Elevation in Montgomery, Alabama.
Elevation is a research center, convening space, art gallery, and theater with overnight accommodations which was designed to complement and enrich the experience for anyone coming to visit our Legacy Sites.
Elevation is a research center, convening space, art gallery, and theater with overnight accommodations which was designed to complement and enrich the experience for anyone coming to visit our Legacy Sites.
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Last week we announced the phase one opening of Elevation in Montgomery, Alabama.
Elevation is a research center, convening space, art gallery, and theater with overnight accommodations which was designed to complement and enrich the experience for anyone coming to visit our Legacy Sites.
Elevation is a research center, convening space, art gallery, and theater with overnight accommodations which was designed to complement and enrich the experience for anyone coming to visit our Legacy Sites.
The Memorial Garden and Legacy Plaza are spaces for visitors to reflect on and process what they've experienced at the Legacy Sites. And now, they are in full bloom.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites today: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites today: legacysites.eji.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The Memorial Garden and Legacy Plaza are spaces for visitors to reflect on and process what they've experienced at the Legacy Sites. And now, they are in full bloom.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites today: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites today: legacysites.eji.org
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Elevation Convening Center and Hotel is now open to guests in Montgomery. This research center, convening space, art gallery, and theater with overnight accommodations will provide comfort to the thousands that visit our Legacy Sites.
EJI Announces the Opening of Elevation in Montgomery, Alabama
We are pleased to announce today's Phase One opening of Elevation.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Elevation Convening Center and Hotel is now open to guests in Montgomery. This research center, convening space, art gallery, and theater with overnight accommodations will provide comfort to the thousands that visit our Legacy Sites.
Our Transatlantic Slave Trade exhibit features sculptures by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo in remembrance of more than 12 million African men, women, and children who were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Americas.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Museum today: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Museum today: legacysites.eji.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Our Transatlantic Slave Trade exhibit features sculptures by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo in remembrance of more than 12 million African men, women, and children who were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Americas.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Museum today: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Museum today: legacysites.eji.org
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice overlooks a hilltop in Montgomery. It is the nation's first comprehensive memorial dedicated to the legacy of Black Americans who were enslaved, terrorized by lynching, humiliated by racial segregation, and presumed guilty and dangerous.
September 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice overlooks a hilltop in Montgomery. It is the nation's first comprehensive memorial dedicated to the legacy of Black Americans who were enslaved, terrorized by lynching, humiliated by racial segregation, and presumed guilty and dangerous.
"Hallow" by Daniel Popper at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Hallow" by Daniel Popper at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
"If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs." — Mary McLeod Bethune
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs." — Mary McLeod Bethune
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"When people allow themselves to be governed by fear and anger, they begin to tolerate things they wouldn’t otherwise tolerate." Hear Bryan Stevenson's conversation with the New York Times on the impact of truth-telling in the current moment.
Opinion | Trump vs. Truth: The Fight for America’s History
Jeffrey Toobin talks with Bryan Stevenson about surviving the politics of fear in 2025.
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September 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"When people allow themselves to be governed by fear and anger, they begin to tolerate things they wouldn’t otherwise tolerate." Hear Bryan Stevenson's conversation with the New York Times on the impact of truth-telling in the current moment.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in 2018. It is a sacred space for truth telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy.
In 2022, we expanded the National Memorial to include a "Community Reckoning" section.
In 2022, we expanded the National Memorial to include a "Community Reckoning" section.
August 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in 2018. It is a sacred space for truth telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy.
In 2022, we expanded the National Memorial to include a "Community Reckoning" section.
In 2022, we expanded the National Memorial to include a "Community Reckoning" section.
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EJI is bringing musical legends Branford Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma to Montgomery for an extraordinary collaboration.
Get your tickets for the concert on October 11 at 7:30pm.
Get your tickets for the concert on October 11 at 7:30pm.
EJI Brings Branford Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma to Montgomery, AL
Join us on October 11, 2025 at 7:30 pm
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August 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
EJI is bringing musical legends Branford Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma to Montgomery for an extraordinary collaboration.
Get your tickets for the concert on October 11 at 7:30pm.
Get your tickets for the concert on October 11 at 7:30pm.
"Praying Hands" by Samuel Kumi at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites at the link in bio.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites at the link in bio.
August 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"Praying Hands" by Samuel Kumi at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites at the link in bio.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites at the link in bio.
“I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it any more.” - Rosa Parks recalling that she didn't refuse to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 because she was tired. She did it because she was tired of giving in.
August 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
“I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it any more.” - Rosa Parks recalling that she didn't refuse to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 because she was tired. She did it because she was tired of giving in.
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of EJI, recently spoke with Spectrum News about the origin and expansion of the Legacy Sites in Downtown Montgomery.
Read the full article here: spectrumlocalnews.com/al/alabama/n...
Read the full article here: spectrumlocalnews.com/al/alabama/n...
How the Legacy Museum is changing the way people see America’s history
The history of Montgomery is often dark. Much of it runs through the heart of the city, along the Alabama River. For decades, the trafficking of tens of thousands of enslaved people who were brought to America from Africa was often glossed over. “You couldn’t find the word slave, slavery or enslavement anywhere in the city landscape,” Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, said. “This is a majority Black city.” In 2018, that changed in a big way, with the opening of the Legacy Museum – which provides an immersive journey through America’s complicated and often painful history of race relations. #SpectrumNews #Alabama #BryanStevenson #LegacyMuseum For more on this and the latest news from across the country: http://specne.ws/AeVey9 Watch live news: http://specne.ws/YTliveSN Get the Spectrum News App on all your favorite devices: http://specne.ws/GetSNApp2
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August 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of EJI, recently spoke with Spectrum News about the origin and expansion of the Legacy Sites in Downtown Montgomery.
Read the full article here: spectrumlocalnews.com/al/alabama/n...
Read the full article here: spectrumlocalnews.com/al/alabama/n...
"Breaking Bondage" by Farai Tigere Tandi at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Breaking Bondage" by Farai Tigere Tandi at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Wretha Hudson, 73, discovers a marker commemorating lynchings in Lee County, Texas, where her father's family lived before Alabama, while visiting the National Memorial For Peace And Justice.
Plan your visit to the Memorial, and the other Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Memorial, and the other Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
July 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Wretha Hudson, 73, discovers a marker commemorating lynchings in Lee County, Texas, where her father's family lived before Alabama, while visiting the National Memorial For Peace And Justice.
Plan your visit to the Memorial, and the other Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Memorial, and the other Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Visitors engage with the jars of soil at the Legacy Museum, each one memorializing a Black victim who lost their life to racial terror violence.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
July 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Visitors engage with the jars of soil at the Legacy Museum, each one memorializing a Black victim who lost their life to racial terror violence.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
"Waiting for Auction" by Vinnie Bagwell at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
July 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"Waiting for Auction" by Vinnie Bagwell at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org
"While [Bryan Stevenson's] book powerfully describes the EJI’s work in preventing wrongful convictions, The Legacy Museum is a way for visitors to step into the narrative themselves and experience an immersive account of the country’s injustices." - Alabama News Center
The Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama, offer a look into stories that shaped the South - Alabama News Center
Three Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama -- The Legacy Museum, The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park -- document the country’s history of racial injustice.
alabamanewscenter.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"While [Bryan Stevenson's] book powerfully describes the EJI’s work in preventing wrongful convictions, The Legacy Museum is a way for visitors to step into the narrative themselves and experience an immersive account of the country’s injustices." - Alabama News Center
EJI is delighted to welcome all those joining us for Juneteenth today. We will be offering free admission to The Legacy Museum, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in honor of Juneteenth.
June 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
EJI is delighted to welcome all those joining us for Juneteenth today. We will be offering free admission to The Legacy Museum, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in honor of Juneteenth.
In celebration of Juneteenth, EJl is offering free admission to the Legacy Sites tomorrow. Visit the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in downtown Montgomery. No tickets required for entry. Plan your visit at legacysites.eji.org
June 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
In celebration of Juneteenth, EJl is offering free admission to the Legacy Sites tomorrow. Visit the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in downtown Montgomery. No tickets required for entry. Plan your visit at legacysites.eji.org
EJI is pleased to announce the opening of Little Donkey, a new lunch and dinner eatery in downtown Montgomery. This Mexican restaurant combines regional flavors to provide a wide-ranging soul-food-inspired menu for Legacy Sites visitors and the general public.
EJI Announces Opening of Little Donkey in Downtown Montgomery
EJI is pleased to announce the opening of Little Donkey, a new lunch and dinner option in downtown Montgomery. Pihakis Restaurant Group has brought the Mexican and Soulful Southern menu to downtown, opening the eatery’s second location in Montgomery. Little Donkey opens to the public on Wednesday, June 4.
legacysites.eji.org
June 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
EJI is pleased to announce the opening of Little Donkey, a new lunch and dinner eatery in downtown Montgomery. This Mexican restaurant combines regional flavors to provide a wide-ranging soul-food-inspired menu for Legacy Sites visitors and the general public.
The Legacy Sites are currently featured in Atlanta Magazine. "The powerful Legacy Sites help us remember who we were—and who we can become."
Must-Do South: Montgomery, Alabama
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March 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The Legacy Sites are currently featured in Atlanta Magazine. "The powerful Legacy Sites help us remember who we were—and who we can become."
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Southern Living featured EJI’s Legacy Sites in Montgomery, AL, as one of the top places to visit this year. The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, Legacy Museum, and National Memorial for Peace and Justice have attracted millions of visitors from around the world since opening.
Legacy Sites Named One of Best Places to Go in 2025
Southern Living's Top 25 Places to Go
legacysites.eji.org
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Southern Living featured EJI’s Legacy Sites in Montgomery, AL, as one of the top places to visit this year. The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, Legacy Museum, and National Memorial for Peace and Justice have attracted millions of visitors from around the world since opening.
The Legacy Sites are still open following a rare winter storm in Alabama.
January 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Legacy Sites are still open following a rare winter storm in Alabama.
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, EJI is offering free admission to the Legacy Sites on Monday, January 20, 2025. Each visitor will receive a free copy of EJI’s award-winning wall calendar, A History of Racial Injustice. No reservations or tickets are required.
Free Admission to Legacy Sites on MLK Day
EJI is offering free admission to the Legacy Sites on Monday, January 20.
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January 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, EJI is offering free admission to the Legacy Sites on Monday, January 20, 2025. Each visitor will receive a free copy of EJI’s award-winning wall calendar, A History of Racial Injustice. No reservations or tickets are required.