Attorney and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative Bryan Stevenson teamed up with Google to launch a website on that will teach the public about the horrific history of lynchings and extrajudicial killings of black people in America.

This interactive site entitled "Lynching in America" contains a map detailing the number of lynchings recorded in each state. Viewers will also be able to virtually travel back in time via victim profiles and stories about why many were killed. Among the interactive visuals, there is an 80-page report that serves as the basis of the project. And there is a film called "Uprooted"  that documents the journey of a lynched man's family as they search for answers regarding his death.

 

“This site features painful stories of America’s history of racial injustice,” site says. “In order to heal the deep wounds of our present, we must face the truth of our past. After slavery was formally abolished, lynching emerged as a vicious tool of racial control to reestablish white supremacy and suppress black civil rights."

From 1877 to 1955, lynchings served as public displays of barbaric terrorism to keep black people in place. During that long period, more than 4,000 African-Americans were murdered across 20 states.