Millions of words will be written, pictures taken and tears of joy shed. Whatever happens over the next four or eight years, tomorrow’s inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America will be marked forever as a truly historic day.
My small contribution is this image taken at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama in 1995.
Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial consists of a circular ‘table’ which shows a timeline of events in the civil rights movement. This, together with the black granite wall behind, has a film of water constantly running across it.
The wall itself displays these words from Martin Luther King: ‘Until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness and righteousness like a mighty stream.’ Tomorrow they will have a particular poignancy.
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