Students in the architectural history class “Museums: Southeast + Beyond” have worked this semester with the Levine Museum of the New South to design and install the exhibition, “The Legacy of Lynching.”
Coming to Charlotte from the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, the exhibition will open on Wednesday, April 24, and will be displayed through Monday, June 17.
On April 26, 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) opened The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, an effort that was rooted in the EJI’s research into the thousands of racial terror lynchings that took place in the American South between 1877 and 1950. “The Legacy of Lynching” exhibition draws upon that research.
Taught by Associate Professor of Architectural History Emily Makas and Director of Galleries Adam Justice, the “museums” class includes 10 undergraduate architecture students, one graduate architecture student and one graduate public history student.
Photo: UNC Charlotte students install wall text at the Levine Museum.