INDG 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Civil Rights Memorial, Maya Lin, Symbolic Capital
9 Jun 2018
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Lecture 13, U.S CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIALS
(v=very)
I. South Carolina Flag Removal
II. Private and Public Memorials
III. Palimpsest Landscapes
IV. Monumental Options
CONFEDERATE FLAG REMOVAL CEREMONY
Charleston, South Carolina, July 10, 2015
video: v formal ceremony for the permanent removal
v informal response from the crowd
AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICAL POWER
civil rights era: some major in political, legal and social status of African American in the US.
it produced messy results
it resulted in more opportunities from African American
one practical effect of the civil right movement was to bring a substantial degree of political
power to African American
graph on slide (study the actual slide because it went fast and was a little hard to understand
during the lecture so my notes might not be correct, sorry about that)
blue: 1916 to 1992
number of African American elected to state assemblies in the US
During post war period, substantial number of African American elected because lots of them
were able to vote
in the phase of reconstruction: decline
and after 1962 none of them were elected
very clear effect of this shift on the memorial landscape
CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIALS 1989
Montgomery, Alabama
The memorial itself lists the name of 41 civil rights workers killed between 1964 and 1968
1964: US supreme court ruled legal
1968: Luther King junior was assassinated
built on the ground of the civil rights memorial center
Designed by Maya Lin (also designed the Vietnam war memorial)
CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM 1991
Memphis, Tennessee
it’s a complicated case, it was built around the Motel where Luther King junior’s assassination
it gradually transformed from a purely private entity to now a museum
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR MEMORIAL
Washington DC, 2011
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Document Summary
Lecture 13, u. s civil rights memorials (v=very: south carolina flag removal. Charleston, south carolina, july 10, 2015 video: v formal ceremony for the permanent removal v informal response from the crowd. The memorial itself lists the name of 41 civil rights workers killed between 1964 and 1968. 1968: luther king junior was assassinated built on the ground of the civil rights memorial center. Designed by maya lin (also designed the vietnam war memorial) Memphis, tennessee it"s a complicated case, it was built around the motel where luther king junior"s assassination it gradually transformed from a purely private entity to now a museum. Mlk memorial and design placement v central location, proximity to the mall close proximity to other memorials mid way between the lincoln and jefferson memorial. 2003: a small plaque on the lincoln memorial celebrating the anniversary of king"s i have a.
