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.