New lynching memorial offers chance to remember, heal

[TomSea]

New lynching memorial offers chance to remember, heal
ABC News

Elmore Bolling defied the odds against black men and built several successful businesses during the harsh era of Jim Crow segregation in the South. He had more money than a lot of whites, which his descendants believe was all it took to get him lynched in 1947.

He was shot to death by a white neighbor, according to news accounts at the time, and the shooter was never prosecuted.

But Bolling's name is now listed among thousands on a new memorial for victims of hate-inspired lynchings that terrorized generations of U.S. blacks. Daughter Josephine Bolling McCall is anxious to see the monument, located about 20 miles from where her father was killed in rural Lowndes County.

Read more at: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lynching-memorial-offers-chance-remember-heal-54656020

[Frank Cannon]

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is a project of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a legal advocacy group in Montgomery. The organization says the combined museum and memorial will be the nation's first site to document racial inequality in America from slavery through Jim Crow to the issues of today.

Hate to be a buzzkill here........BUT Equal Justice Initiative is a wing of the Open Society Foundation which is George Soros. This is a bunch of bullshit to rile up social justice warriors.

[Optiguy]

Will folks demand it be torn down due to the emotion such history evokes in modern culture? Asking for a friend.