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<text id=89TT3044>
<title>
Nov. 20, 1989: American Notes:Alabama
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Nov. 20, 1989 Freedom!
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 69
American Notes
ALABAMA
Lest We Forget
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<p> 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.
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<p> 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."
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