Civil Rights Memorial Center

The Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama is amazing.  This picture (and a couple of others posted above this one) is of the memorial that's in front of the museum.  This memorial was done by Maya Lin, the same woman who crafted the Vietnam War Memorial.  She used the theme from MLK's "I have a dream" speech. . . "Until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."  (which MLK paraphrased from the book of Amos in the Bible).  There is a wall with water flowing down it and a circular pool with 40 names of Civil Rights martyrs.  The place that I chose for this picture is the blank space between the start of the movement with the 1954 Montgomery Bus Boycott and MLK's assassination in 1968.  This blank space was left because Lin acknowledged that the fight for Civil Rights began long before the boycott and there is still work to be done after MLK's death.  That's where I come in, so I wanted to commemorate that in this photo.