Thursday was a very deep, eventful day. We started our day by visiting the Legacy Museum. From the website: “The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration is situated on a site in Montgomery where Black people were forced to labor in bondage. Blocks from one of the most prominent slave auction spaces in America, the Legacy Museum is steps away from the rail station where tens of thousands of Black people were trafficked during the 19th century.”
The museum was a lynching memorial with a disgusting amount of boxes. Each box was shaped like a coffin and had a county on it. Each county had names on it that went on and on. It was a really hard sight to see, but it was very important. It was repulsive to think of how someone could dehumanize someone so much. The memorial was the saddest part of the whole trip and hurt to learn. I tried my best to read every box, but there were sadly too many. It’s frightening to think about someone being hung and burned alive just by the color of their skin. It was a really sad sight to see and it was a sad way to start our day.
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