Statues depict chained people at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., the new memorial scheduled to open April 26 to honor thousands of people killed in lynchings in the United States.
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Elmore Bolling defied the odds against black men and built several successful businesses during the harsh era of Jim Crow segregation in the South. He had more money than a lot of white people, which his descendants believe was all it took to get him lynched in 1947.
