And we all know that it is so important for everybody to not only have the right to vote, the access to vote, but have their vote count.” You name it, there are tactics at play that we must stand up against. “Voter suppression, people losing access to polls. “Just like 30, 50 years ago, we are still fighting some of the same issues when it comes to voting,” she said. The struggle for justice and equality is not over, Baynes-Dunning said. Reed, Baynes-Dunning and Levin also took a moment together to lay their hands in the water that runs across the names of the martyrs on the Memorial.
SPLC officials – including Joe Levin, co-founder Karen Baynes-Dunning, interim president and Lecia Brooks, chief workplace transformation officer – were among several dignitaries who laid roses on the Memorial.
Participants – including students from Park Crossing and Valiant Cross Academy – laid 40 long-stemmed red roses on the Memorial in honor of the 40 martyrs whose names are inscribed there. The ceremony, which drew more than 200 people, also featured special performances by members of the Park Crossing High School Choir under the direction of Darrian Stovall. And let us remember the opportunities that we have now in front of all of us because of that.” The question is how will we live and how will we measure our life? What contributions and what impact on others will we have? When we think about those who we memorialize here today, let us remember their sacrifice. Because it’s not a matter of life and death. “We commemorate how they lived and what they wanted to be about. We commemorate their spirit,” Montgomery Mayor-elect Steven Reed said from a podium overlooking the Memorial – a spot not far from where enslaved Africans were once traded, not far from the church where King preached about justice, and not far from where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, galvanizing the civil rights movement. “What we commemorate is the lives and the spirit of those who are immortalized in this marble.
Board of Education decision and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 5, 1989, honors 40 people who were killed during the modern civil rights movement, a period framed by the 1954 Brown v. The Memorial, dedicated by the SPLC on Nov.
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