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Created by Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer Maya Lin, the Memorial is located across the street from the Southern Poverty Law Center's office building in Montgomery, Alabama, a city rich with civil rights history. A circular black granite table records the names of the martyrs and chronicles the history of the movement in lines that radiate like the hands of a clock. Water emerges from the ...
The Forgotten: The Wall of The Forgotten lists the names of 74 women, men and children who died between 1952 and 1968 under circumstances suggesting they were victims of white supremacist violence. It was inspired by Shelton Chappell’s request to honor the memory of his mother, Johnnie Mae Chappell, among the other martyrs listed on the Memorial.
Feb 1, 2019 · The Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, was designed by Maya Lin and features a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. Photograph ...
The Civil Rights Memorial Center is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center in downtown Montgomery. It includes a great deal of educational information about the Civil Rights Movement, an original 20 minute film about the Movement, and the Civil Rights Memorial. $2.00 admission charged for adults, under 18 FREE.
HISTORY: The Birth of the Modern Civil Rights Movement in America. The arrest of Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955, for her refusal to yield her seat on a Montgomery public transit bus to a white man, in defiance of local segregation laws, provided the impetus for change in the city and the nation.
On the circular water table is inscribed a timeline of the civil rights movement beginning in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education and ending in 1968 with Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. A gap is left between 1954 and 1968, signifying the time before and after in this continuing history. And the quote from Martin Luther King Jr.
The Civil Rights Memorial Center is located just steps away from the Alabama State Capitol, the Rosa Parks Museum and Dexter King Memorial Baptist Church where Dr. King served as pastor during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
