{"id":343506,"date":"2017-06-13T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1501747"},"modified":"2017-06-13T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T10:00:39","slug":"equal-justice-initiative-backed-by-google-org-launches-lynching-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/equal-justice-initiative-backed-by-google-org-launches-lynching-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal Justice Initiative, backed by Google.org, launches \u2018Lynching in America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanks in part to funding by Google.org, Equal Justice Initiative<\/a> has launched an online platform to explore the history of lynching in America. The goal with Lynching in America<\/a> is to enable people to confront the history of lynching through research, data and the stories of those affected by lynching in America.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter slavery was formally abolished, lynching emerged as a vicious tool of racial control to reestablish white supremacy and suppress black civil rights,\u201d the site reads.<\/p>\n

It goes on to note that between 1877 and 1950, more than 4,000 black people were lynched across twenty states as \u201cpublic acts of racial terrorism, intended to instill fear in entire black communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The website features six distinct sections. The first includes oral histories from descendants of lynching victims, while other elements of the site include a six-minute documentary, data visualizations of lynching and the Great Migration, and a version of the report to use in classrooms.<\/p>\n

In The Great Migration section, we can see that as a result of lynchings and other acts of racial violence in the first half of the 20th century, more than six million black people fled the South, often times to cities in the North and West. In Oakland, Calif., for example, the African-American population went from just two percent black in 1910 to 34.5 percent black in 1970.<\/p>\n

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Since 2016, The Equal Justice Initiative has received a total of $2 million in grant money from Google.org. The first $1 million came in 2016, and the second $1 million comes in tandem with the launch of Lynching in America. The EJI plans to use this round of grant money to support its national memorial to lynching victims<\/a>, which is slated to open in 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle has been able to take what we know about lynching, and what we have heard from the families, and what we have seen in the spaces and the communities where these acts of terror took place, and make that knowledge accessible to a lot more people,\u201d Equal Justice Initiative Founder and Executive Director Bryan Stevenson said in a statement. \u201cTo create a platform for hearing and understanding and seeing this world that we\u2019ve lived through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" Thanks in part to funding by Google.org, Equal Justice Initiative has launched an online platform to explore the history of lynching in America. The goal with Lynching in America is to enable people to confront the history of lynching through research, data and the stories of those affected by lynching in America. “After slavery was formally abolished, lynching emerged as a vicious tool… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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