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When Bryan Stevenson<\/span> moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1980s, the city\u2014one of America\u2019s most prominent slave trading spaces before the Civil War\u2014had dozens of Confederate monuments and memorials, but nothing commemorating slavery. Today, thanks to Stevenson\u2019s efforts, the city looks much different.<\/p>

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Over the last decade, the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative has transformed parts of Montgomery through markers acknowledging the legacy of slavery while also building the Legacy Sites, a series of museums and memorials that commemorate America\u2019s dark history of lynching, slaveholding, and racial terror across the South.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really proud that we have made Montgomery, Alabama, arguably the most truthful space in America when it comes to confronting the legacy of slavery and the legacy of lynching,\u201d Stevenson says. \u201cIf we can lift up truth in the heart of Dixie, then there\u2019s not a place in America that can say, \u2018Well, they can do that there, but we can\u2019t do it here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>

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On this week\u2019s More To The Story<\/em>, Stevenson talks about the importance of memorializing America\u2019s full history as the Trump administration attempts to erase slavery and lynching from the nation\u2019s museums and why he sees today\u2019s narrative struggle for racial justice as a generational battle.<\/p>\n

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