<Tr> <Th> Founder </Th> <Td> Equal Justice Initiative </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Official website </Td> </Tr> <P> The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, is a national memorial to commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States in order to acknowledge the past of racial terrorism in the search for social justice . Founded by the Equal Justice Initiative, it opened in downtown Montgomery, Alabama on April 26, 2018 . </P> <P> The memorial was built on six acres in the downtown area of the state capital by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a non-profit based in Montgomery . Also under the auspices of EJI is The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration . It is built near the Montgomery site where enslaved African Americans were auctioned at market . The development and construction of the memorial complex cost an estimated $20 million raised from private foundations . The EJI's founder, Bryan Stevenson, was inspired by the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany, and the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, to create a single memorial to victims of white supremacy in the United States . </P>

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