Reviews
Critics, reporters, and visitors have shared compelling reviews and powerful personal reflections inspired by their experiences at the Legacy Sites since they opened to critical acclaim in 2018.
“An unflinching and moving journey through the story of slavery.”
The New York Times
Oct 11, 2023
“One of the most powerful and effective new memorials created in a generation.”
The Washington Post
Apr 24, 2018
“A full-spectrum, mind-blowing narrative dedicated to telling the most comprehensive story imaginable about the Black experience in America.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
by Tony Norman
Jun 17, 2022
More Reviews
New Alabama Sculpture Park Reflects on Slavery’s Enduring Legacy
Smithsonian Magazine
Oct 12, 2023
New Alabama Sculpture Park Will Feature Contemporary Art and a National Monument to Freedom from Slavery
The Art Newspaper
Oct 11, 2023
EJI Releases Plans for Freedom Monument Sculpture Park Coming in 2024
Montgomery Advertiser
Oct 11, 2023
An Eye-Opening & Cathartic Trip to Alabama
Nicholas Cote
Jun 12, 2023
Standing In the Past: What Better Way to Appreciate and Not Forget?
Sandra McDonald
May 22, 2023
How a Life-Changing Museum Visit Is Helping BOCES
Evelyn Lafontaine
Apr 18, 2023
Episcopalians Journey to Alabama for a Civil Rights Pilgrimage
Rachel Ravellette
Mar 6, 2023
My Kids Need to Know that Black Is Brilliance. So We Go to Museums.
The Washington Post
Feb 12, 2023
Is America the Best Country? That’s the Wrong Question.
Tom Moran
Jan 1, 2023
Civil Rights Pilgrimage a Must-See for All
Betsy Pickle
Aug 30, 2022
Art That Confronts and Challenges Racism: Start Here
The New York Times
Jun 4, 2020
Aufarbeitung ist keine Impfung
Die Tageszeitung
May 10, 2020
Dark Tourism: Questioning How We Memorialise Tragedy
Architectural Review
May 5, 2020
Alabama Memorial Remembers the 4,400-plus Who Were Lynched in the U.S.
How Stuff Works
Feb 9, 2020
48 Hours in Montgomery, Alabama: Travel Guide
Berger Bungalow
Jul 10, 2019
Takeaways from the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Repair the World
Jun 12, 2019
Two Powerful Sites Challenge Larry Wheeler to Contemplate our Southern History
Walter Magazine
Jun 1, 2019
Unusual Alliance Hopes Clay County Shares its Dark History with Lynching Memorial
WDAF-TV Kansas City
May 23, 2019
Florida Victims of Racial Terror Commemorated on New Monument at National Lynching Memorial
Orlando Sentinel
May 10, 2019
A Road Trip Through Alabama, Where Creatives are Grappling With the Past and Building a Brighter Future
Travel + Leisure
Apr 3, 2019
At Alabama’s Legacy Museum, Echoes Of Holocaust Remembrance
Forward
Mar 26, 2019
Listening for Good: Reflections on Our Experience in Montgomery
The James Irvine Foundation
Feb 28, 2019
And the Whole Truth Will Set You Free
Sojourners
Feb 21, 2019
Journey Toward Justice
Emory University
Dec 14, 2018
Dedication to My Neck, and the Joy of Holding It High
Facilitate Movement
Dec 11, 2018
Lynched for Drinking from a White Man’s Well
London Review of Books
Oct 11, 2018
The Single Greatest Work of 21st Century American Architecture Will Break Your Heart
The Dallas Morning News
Aug 29, 2018
On a Hill in Alabama, the Lynched Haunt Us
Rolling Stone
May 6, 2018
Inside the Memorial to Victims of Lynching
60 Minutes
Apr 27, 2018
New Lynching Memorial Is a Space 'To Talk About All of That Anguish'
NPR
Apr 26, 2018
A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.
The New York Times
Apr 25, 2018
