Opened in 2018 by Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative, the country's first national memorial to victims of racial-terror lynching occupies six acres on a low hill south of downtown. The central pavilion is the most powerful piece: hundreds of rust-coloured steel monuments hang at head height, then above your head, then far above, forcing a slow physical reckoning as you walk beneath them.
Surrounding the pavilion are sculptures by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo (an enslaved family in chains at the entrance), Dana King (a tribute to the women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott), and Hank Willis Thomas (a piece on contemporary police violence). A shuttle runs between the memorial and the Legacy Museum a mile north; combined tickets cover both.