Person · 1959–
Bryan Stevenson
The lawyer and EJI founder who built the national memorial to lynching victims and reframed mass incarceration as slavery's heir.
A bridge between [[anti-lynching|the history of racial terror]] and [[mass-incarceration]] today.
Through the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson has freed wrongly condemned prisoners, documented thousands of racial-terror lynchings, and built the National Memorial for Peace and Justice — connecting slavery, lynching, and the modern prison.
The web
Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.
- builds on·PersonIda B. Wells
EJI's lynching memorial completes the documentation Wells began in the 1890s.