That’s one of many impressions this week’s field trip to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice made on the Missouri basketball team.
On Monday, Cuonzo Martin took his players and staff to the memorial and the adjoining museum in Montgomery, Alabama, during their trip between SEC road games. The memorial commemorates Black lynching victims in America. Mizzou’s contingent also visited The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, also built by the Equal Justice Initiative in 2018.
“It was very awakening,” Tilmon said Friday.
During his Zoom session with reporters Friday, Martin reflected on the experience and shared an impassioned perspective on the team’s visit.