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The Legacy Museum is currently located at 115 Coosa Street in Montgomery – Alabama News Network
The Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative says it plans to open a new Legacy Museum in the fall, which will be in a new location with much more to see inside.
The Legacy Museum will move to 400 North Court Street, in the same building that holds EJI’s Legacy Pavilion. The new space will also house the welcome center, ticket office, gift shop and Pannie-George’s Kitchen.
The new museum will keep its name, The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration.
The EJI says the museum will present new exhibits and information about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a detailed examination of Reconstruction and a greatly expanded set of exhibits about the civil rights era, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, resistance to racial integration and the history of voter disenfranchisement. A range of contemporary issues will also be explored.
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The Equal Justice Initiative has launched a major expansion of its Montgomery sites, one that founder Bryan Stevenson hopes will allow more people to gain a broader understanding of slavery and racism s lasting impact on different parts of the nation and the world.
The nonprofit s pavilion and welcome center at 401 N. Perry St. has been under construction for months. By fall it will be the new home of EJI s Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, with four to five times as much space as the current site in the Alley development a few blocks away. That will give EJI space to expand the narrative and the subject matter covered by the displays.