However, it is thought that these people were killed as a result of racially motivated violence between 1952 and 1968. Andrew Lee Anderson Frank Andrews Isadore Banks Larry Bolden James Brazier Thomas Brewer Hilliard Brooks Charles Brown Jessie Brown Carrie Brumfield Eli Brumfield Silas (Ernest) Caston Clarence Cloninger Willie Countryman Vincent Dahmon Woodrow Wilson Daniels Joseph Hill Dumas Pheld Evans J.
The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center. ==Design== The names included in the memorial belong to those who were killed between 1954 and 1968.
Those dates were chosen because in 1954 the U.S.
The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center. ==Design== The names included in the memorial belong to those who were killed between 1954 and 1968.
Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unlawful and 1968 is the year of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
However, it is thought that these people were killed as a result of racially motivated violence between 1952 and 1968. Andrew Lee Anderson Frank Andrews Isadore Banks Larry Bolden James Brazier Thomas Brewer Hilliard Brooks Charles Brown Jessie Brown Carrie Brumfield Eli Brumfield Silas (Ernest) Caston Clarence Cloninger Willie Countryman Vincent Dahmon Woodrow Wilson Daniels Joseph Hill Dumas Pheld Evans J.
The Civil Rights Memorial was dedicated in 1989. The concept of Lin's design is based on the soothing and healing effect of water.
As such, the memorial represents the aspirations of the civil rights movement to end legal racial segregation. ==Tours and location== The memorial is in downtown Montgomery, at 400 Washington Avenue, in an open plaza in front of the Civil Rights Memorial Center, which was the offices of the Southern Poverty Law Center until it moved across the street into a new building in 2001.
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