TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 14, 2022

The U.S. House of Representatives is considering a bill from U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, a Memphis Democrat, that would direct the National Park Service to study the feasibility of adding lynching sites in and around Memphis to its properties. The Lynching Sites Project of Memphis, a nonprofit seeking to commemorate about two dozen locations, has been working to document the sites, Tennessee Lookout reports. Congress enacted bills with similar missions earlier this year, voting to add a former Japanese internment camp in southeastern Colorado to the park system and to expand sites related to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case in Kansas.