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Markers Of A Violent Racial Past In Alabama

The lynching marker in Irondale, AL.
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The Jefferson County Memorial Project - based in Birmingham - remembers the Black men and women killed in racially motivated violence by white mobs during the Jim Crow era of segregation in Alabama.

Earlier this year, a plaque was installed along the railroad tracks in the town of Irondale - recalling the killing of a Black man there in 1896, as he tried to make a purchase at a grocery store.

 

Margaret Norman is a former researcher fellow with the Project.

She and Alex Melonas are members of the Irondale Memorial Coalition.

Joi Brown is the Project's executive director.
 

Ray is the host and producer of Scenic Roots, Mondays - Thursdays at 3 PM on WUTC.
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