The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is dedicated to teaching a more complete and inclusive account of the past, one that helps communities understand how we reached the present—with its conflicts, opportunities, and urgent needs.
Painful history, when explored accurately and empathetically, can inspire us to address persistent inequities that exist as legacies of history in our lives today — and can inform our shared understanding about who is seen or silenced and what we choose to venerate or disdain as we mold the future.

This is the focus of the Center’s Truth and Transformation Initiative: to create opportunities for Atlanta to engage with its past in ways that prove transformative.
Truth and Transformation will focus on people and events in our city that have not been recognized or memorialized, with a specific interest in addressing two glaring omissions: convict leasing atrocities at the Chattahoochee Brick Factory and Bellwood Quarry and the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, where at least 25 African Americans were lynched over a four-day killing spree.