Aug 31st, 2012 at 2:00PM:
The Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, D.C., was unveiled on August 28, 2011. It has since proved hugely popular, with an estimated 1.5 to 2 million visitors in its first year. It has also proved controversial.
As Art Daily reports, several public figures complained about an inscription on the memorial that reads, "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness." The ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Martin Luther King Memorial Inscription To Be Modified
Aug 31st, 2012 at 2:00PM:
The Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, D.C., was unveiled on August 28, 2011. It has since proved hugely popular, with an estimated 1.5 to 2 million visitors in its first year. It has also proved controversial.
As Art Daily reports, several public figures complained about an inscription on the memorial that reads, "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness." The ...The Green Book: A Guidebook For The Age Of Segregation
Apr 21st, 2012 at 10:00AM: It's hard to imagine nowadays when the only limitations to travel are money, time and health, but for much of America's history a large segment of the population had trouble traveling just because of the color of their skin.
During the days of segregation, most hotels were off-limits to African-Americans, as were other facilities like restaurants, movie theaters and campgrounds. Those that did ...Exploring the Double-Edged History of Montgomery, Alabama
Aug 2nd, 2011 at 1:00PM:
In Montgomery, during the Freedom Rides, I heard Martin Luther King say that while Brown v. Board of Education had been the legal turning point in the movement, the Montgomery bus boycott and the sit-ins were the psychological turning point.
So writes Calvin Trillin in a recent New Yorker, reflecting on the civil rights struggle in the deep south, which he covered for Time magazine "from ...
