african-americans were lynched, hung, shot, burned alive, often as entertainment for entire towns. towns. between the end of the civil war and the dawn of the civil rights era, in four days the eji will open the national memorial for peace and justice in montgomery, alabama to commemorate the victims and to expose her legacy often downplayed, if not left out, of the history books. joining me now is brian stephens stephenson, executive director and ceo of the equal justice initiative. brian, i think that the museum brings home the graphic and ugly display of what african-americans went through that a lot of people want to erase or ignore.