The nation's first memorial to lynching victims is adding a new monument to remember people killed during the 1950s in racially motivated attacks that often targeted early civil rights leaders.
The Equal Justice Initiative on Monday will dedicate the new monument at the Peace and Justice Memorial Center in Montgomery.
The monument will commemorate 24 people slain during the 1950s, including Emmett Till and voting rights activists Harry and Harriette Moore.
Till was a 14-year-old beaten and killed in Mississippi in 1955 after claims he flirted with a white woman. The Moores were civil rights activists killed in 1951 when their Florida home was bombed.
The dedication and an evening concert will also mark the first anniversary of the opening of the lynching memorial and a related museum.
