Lynching memorial may be game-changer for Montgomery tourism
Source: Associated Press, by Beth J. Harpaz
Some 10,000 people visited the memorial and museum in the first week. Tourism officials estimate they could attract 100,000 more visitors to this Southern city in the next year. One young man, Dimitri Digbeu Jr., who drove 13 hours from Baltimore to see the memorial, said he thought it had singlehandedly “rebranded” Montgomery.
DuVernay, whose Oscar-nominated movie “Selma” described the 1965 civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, noted that the memorial and museum were built by legal advocacy group the Equal Justice Initiative . “These people are lawyers fighting for people on death row,” DuVernay added. “They’re not thinking about how to market this to the wider world.”
Some travelers say the new memorial and museum have changed their minds about visiting the Deep South. “As a black American, I’m not crazy about the idea of driving down streets named after Confederate generals and averting my eyes from Confederate flags,” said New Yorker Brian Major. “But reconciliation and peace-making has to begin somewhere and for a project as worthy and important as the lynching memorial, I would be willing to make the trip.”
Much more at: https://apnews.com/1603c370733140bba371032a60a5e858/Lynching-memorial-may-be-game-changer-for-Montgomery-tourism
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educated and enlightened, black and white. But game changer? No. AmeriKKKa and Montgomery will remain as racist as it has ALWAYS been. 
who could miss that? NYC? True. Blue. NYC was just his business playground-base. The city did not give us trump, it created what he is. Con, racist, fascist, sexist, bigoted, cheat and cheap when some work needed doing, somewhat homophobic, I suspect. Alabama and a host of other states gave us this racist potus. I have extensive experience with the south. I and many other AA's always have said, at least in the south we would know where we stood in the 'pecking order' and who hated us. The north, not so open and obvious with their hate. That is all it comes down to, with me. Always in 65 years of ameriKKKan living. As a personal aside, yes when trump is out of office, I will drop the KKK. But he and sessions represent the sterling example of white supremacist-nationalists and to me the majority of Alabamans.
Lynching memorial, excellent location in the heart of the new Confederacy, in old Dixie.
