The Civil Rights Memorial stands at 400 Washington Avenue in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, in an open plaza in front of the Civil Rights Memorial Center. Maya Lin designed it, and the Southern Poverty Law Center sponsors it. It was dedicated in 1989. The article names no style and gives no dimensions.
The memorial is a fountain shaped as an asymmetric inverted granite cone, arranged as a timeline from the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling to Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. A thin sheet of water flows over the base, where 41 names are inscribed. Visitors can touch the water. Lin was inspired by King's quotation of Amos about justice rolling down like waters.
The names are of people killed between 1955 and 1968. The memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day. Guided tours of about an hour are available by appointment.
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