The newly dedicated National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, honors the victims of lynchings and other racial violence in the United States. More than 4,000 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950. Although most took place in the Jim Crow South, these murders occurred throughout the country – including at least 15 in Ohio. Susan Hall, a curator at the Cleveland History Center of the Western Reserve Historical Society, visited the new memorial during its construction and again after it opened. She joins ideastream's Rick Jackson to talk about why the grim history chronicled there should matter to all Americans.
-Susan Hall, Director of Community Relations and a Curator at the Cleveland History Center of the Western Reserve Historical Society