The Legacy Museum – The Legacy Sites

A tragic, false narrative of racial difference was created in America that has resulted in centuries of racial bigotry and injustice.

This belief in racial hierarchy was used to legitimate, perpetuate, and defend slavery—and it survived slavery’s abolition, fueling racial terror lynchings, demanding legally codified segregation, and spawning our contemporary mass incarceration crisis.

The Legacy Museum traces the evolution of this dehumanizing myth from our nation’s founding to today.