'It Seemed Like Reaching for the Moon.' -- Virginia Civil Rights Memorial Richmond (VA) 2012 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
'It Seemed Like Reaching for the Moon.' -- Virginia Civil Rights Memorial Richmond (VA) 2012 / Ron Cogswell
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| 説明 | The Virginia Civil Rights Memorial is a monument in Richmond, commemorating protests that helped bring about school desegregation in the state.The Memorial was opened in 2008, located on the grounds of the Virginia State Capitol.It features eighteen statues of leaders in the Virginia civil rights movement on four sides of a rectangular granite stone block, which two quotes are engraved onto.The Memorial was designed by American sculpture Stanley Bleifeld (1924–2011), who was chosen by the commission overseeing the construction of the Monument. It cost $2.8 million, which was financed by private donations.The Memorial's dedication was on July 21, 2008, with about 4,000 people in attendance, including Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, relatives of those involved in the protest against school segregation, and civil rights leaders.In 2005, Virginia Governor Mark Warner and the Virginia General Assembly established the commission to build the Memorial, and ground was broken at the Monument's permanent site in early 2008. The Memorial is located on the northeast corner of the State Capitol grounds, not far from a statue of Harry F. Byrd, Sr., U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1933-1965 who was the architect of the "Massive Resistance" movement against Virginia school integration in the 1950s and 1960s. The two quotes engraved on each of the Memorial's long granite sides are:1. "It seemed like reaching for the moon." — Barbara Rose Johns (1935–1991), a civil rights leader who in 1951, at the age of 16, organized a student strike for equal education at Moton High School in Farmville, Prince Edward County (VA).2. "The legal system can force open doors and sometimes even knock down walls. But it cannot build bridges. That job belongs to you and me." — Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993).Image by Ron Cogswell on June 9, 2012, using a Pentax Optio A10 and Photoshop effects.IMGP0041Per Arl.Now June, 14, 2021:"A new installation outside Dorothy Hamm Middle School on Vacation Lane tells the story of the four students who integrated the building, formerly Stratford Junior High School, six decades ago.Four free-standing panels and a wall-mounted panel, connected by a trail, depict Gloria Thompson, Ronald Deskins, Lance Newman and Michael Jones — the four students who desegregated the building on Feb. 2, 1959 — as well as Dorothy Hamm, the new school’s namesake and prominent civil rights activist in Arlington, and Barbara Johns, who at 16 led a student strike for equal education at a high school in Farmville, Virginia.During a dedication ceremony for the new Stratford Commemorative Trail on Friday, several speakers said the installation equally inspires children to achieve greatness and charges Arlington Public Schools to continue making history.“Rest assured that every child will leave this school knowing the civil rights history that happened here, understanding that while four students did begin the desegregation process in 1959, many others were denied that opportunity, and it came later,” school Principal Ellen Smith said. “Our students must know that as citizens of our school, our county, our state and our nation, they have the responsibility to speak up, to say something and make good trouble, as [former Rep.] John Lewis so aptly stated.”The panels challenge those who walk the trail to take action and remind middle schoolers can make a difference at their age, she added.Dorothy Hamm’s sons — Bernard and E. Leslie Hamm, Jr., who were present at the ceremony — attended the school soon after its desegregation. Also present at the ceremony were Jones, Thompson and Deskins, Sammy Newman (Lance’s brother) and Tyrone Nelson, one of the original litigants in the lawsuit to desegregate."Per Wikipedia:"Dorothy Hamm (1919-2004) was a leading figure in the civil rights movement in the Commonwealth of Virginia, an author, teacher, and elections officer." |
| 撮影日 | 2012-06-09 16:53:25 |
| 撮影者 | Ron Cogswell , Arlington, Virginia, USA |
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| 撮影地 | Richmond, Virginia, United States 地図 |