Up early to start the day at the other half of the Equal Justice Initiative memorials. The National Memorial for Peace and Memorial sits on a hill overlooking the city. As many other visitors have said there are no words that can describe the impact of this extraordinary memorial. The pictures below hopefully captures some of its impact.
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| The metal slabs display the names of the people who were lynched by county. |
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We returned to the downtown and went to the Southern Poverty Law Center‘s Civil Rights and Memorial Center where a famous granite table designed by Maya Lin graces the entrance. It lists the names of 40 civil rights martyrs who died between 1954 and 1968 and presents a timeline of civil rights struggle.
We then drove to Selma to walk over the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Having read so much about Bloody Sunday and the marches that followed we were anxious to be there. Again we were filled with emotion as we crested the hill imagining John Lewis facing the city police who bludgeoned him and the fellow marchers.
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