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NATION, Page 69American NotesALABAMALest We Forget
There is no more fitting place than Montgomery, Ala., site of
the epic 1955-56 black boycott to desegregate the bus system, to
memorialize the nation's decades-long struggle for civil rights.
Last week 5,000 black and white Americans gathered there to
dedicate a black granite sculpture engraved with the names of 40
particularly unforgettable men, women and children -- an honor roll
representing the untold numbers of people who have died in violent
racial confrontations.
Centerpiece of the structure -- conceived by Maya Lin, who
designed Washington's Viet Nam Veterans Memorial -- is a round
tabletop, 11 1/2 ft. in diameter. On it, along with the 40 names,
is carved a chronology of major civil rights events, and over this
flows a thin sheen of water, a symbol of Martin Luther King Jr.'s
"mighty stream" of righteousness. Said Karen Reeb, daughter of a
white Unitarian minister who was beaten to death after he marched
with King in Selma, Ala.: "It just eases the emptiness in my
heart."