Equal Justice Initiative

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In brief

History of lynching acknowledged In Court Square, Albemarle County’s seat of justice, a memorial was installed July...

Etched in memory

A pilgrimage is a spiritual journey that, with its elements of symbolism, ritual and enlightenment, seems almost...

Confronting a shameful past

As big a role as history plays in Charlottesville’s identity, some events, like an 1898 lynching, were pretty much...

‘Complicit’

The lynching of John Henry James in Albemarle in 1898 for allegedly assaulting a white woman was both horrific—and...