Equal Justice Initiative
Montgomery, USA
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Florian Guillaume: “Bryan Stevenson reminds me that getting close to injustice is where real change starts.”
Founded by Bryan Stevenson, the son of a sharecropper from Delaware who became one of America's most celebrated lawyers and authors. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, the former capital of the Confederacy. EJI provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty, wrongly convicted or sentenced as children. Has won relief for 140+ death row prisoners. In 2018 opened the National Memorial for Peace and Justice: America's first memorial dedicated to the victims of racial terror lynching (4,
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