7 responses to “A Photo for Friday”

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   OzarkHillbilly

   June 4, 2021 at 8:52 am

   My first thought: “Whoa…”

   Well done.

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   Steven L. Taylor

   June 4, 2021 at 10:06 am

   @OzarkHillbilly: It a somber and emotionally effecting place–a memorial to lynching in the US. If you are ever in the area, I highly recommend a visit.

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   al Ameda

   June 4, 2021 at 11:14 am

   Extremely moving. Steven.
   Do they put a name (the victim’s name) each of the ’tiles’ ?

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   Steven L. Taylor

   June 4, 2021 at 11:53 am

   @al Ameda: Each of the boxes (which evoke simple caskets to me) is from a specific county. On each of the boxes is the name and date of those lynched in that county.

   For example: here and here.

   I would say this (along with the Viet Nam Memorial in DC) to be the most appropriate and moving memorials I have ever seen.

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   OzarkHillbilly

   June 4, 2021 at 5:01 pm

   @Steven L. Taylor: It’s been on my list ever since it opened. Thanx for the recommendation tho as it just adds to my determination to head that way.

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   Steven L. Taylor

   June 4, 2021 at 6:29 pm

   @OzarkHillbilly: If you do make it to town, plan to visit the Rosa Parks Museum (on our Montgomery campus and very close to the Memorial as well as the SPLC).
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   de stijl

   June 6, 2021 at 7:18 am

   Sweet!

   I liked that. Obviously physical yet meta.