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By Stephanie F.October 5, 2017April 5, 2018

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Halfway through the year 🕰 and halfway done with my reading goal of 50 books 📚 These were my spring reads from April, May & June. I thought it would be too much to write even a small description of all these books for this post, but I do rate & review what I read on my goodreads account. 👩🏻‍💻 https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/93117757-stephanie-ford #aprilreads2019 #mayreads2019 #junereads2019 #americanliterature #worldliterature #russianclassics #barnesandnobleclassics #justmercybook #booksamillion #2ndandcharles #undergroundbookstore #amazonbooks #maxfrisch #kawabata #flanneryoconnor #dostoyevsky #theworldbetweentwocovers

Now that I’m back in the suburbs, I find myself needing two opposite extremes: either the quiescent & impressive beauty of nature 🌱 or an inspirational city center & the hustle and bustle of a big city🚦

My last post was long and serious, so here’s a fun one 😉 I’m not this good at makeup. A friend at work hooked me up ☺️ Which one is your favorite?? 1, 2, 3 or 4?❣️#makeup #roses #makeupisart #hefefilter #georgiagirl

▪️In honor of Juneteenth Independence Day today, I’ve decided to share these photos of The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice from my recent visit to Montgomery, Alabama. It was just opened last year in order to acknowledge past racial terrorism and advocate for social justice. Racial injustice is still a pervasive issue today.▪️Even though we are taught about slavery in American schools, the atrocities—such as public lynchings—that followed emancipation are largely left out. That is why this museum and memorial (the first of its kind) are so important.▪️Not to mention, racially-motivated cruelties did not end with the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement. For that, we need to take a look at racially-motivated profiling, unfair legal proceedings, and America’s prison system. It’s better to be rich and guilty than poor and innocent.▪️Each of the steel rectangles seen in the photos represents a county where a lynching occurred. Many of them commemorate several victims (oftentimes family members which is harrowing to see.) As you move through the space, the floor gets lower and the steel rectangles first met at face level hang above your head. There are also descriptions detailing why certain lynchings occurred. These descriptions are haunting. The square space in the middle is also significant for the spaces where these public lynchings took place. There are more than 800 rectangles representing more than 4,000 victims. Around the main memorial are several statues of enslaved persons, Civil Rights activists and those who are innocent but considered guilty (their hands are up signifying their innocence but they remain stuck.) ▪️I ask everyone to do a bit of research about Montgomery’s role in the Civil Rights movement, Jim Crow laws in the South, segregation and the hard fight for equal rights. A great resource is eji.org. The Equal Justice Initiative (eji) is the organization behind the museum and memorial mentioned. Their website has many informative articles as well as information about ways to help.▪️Thanks for reading. If you have any questions about the photos or the topic in general, I’d be glad to answer.

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