Bryan Stevenson cites the first time he visited death row while interning at the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) in Atlanta, Georgia as a transformative moment in his life that turned him into a student that was committed to “mastering the law”. He explores the long history of racism in America and says slavery didn’t end in 1865, but it evolved. Stevenson explains the importance of opening The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to the victims of lynchings.
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. He is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy (2014). He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government. Stevenson’s work has won him numerous awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Prize.
From the HBO / Kunhardt Film Foundation (KFF) Documentary “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality,” a look at how the Alabama attorney struggles to create more fairness in the legal system.
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