Editing Civil Rights Memorial (section)

==Design==
The names included in the memorial belong to those who were killed between 1955 and 1968. The dates chosen represent a time when legalized segregation was prominent. In 1954 the [[United States Supreme Court|U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' that [[racial segregation]] in schools was unlawful and 1968 is the year of the [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|assassination]] of [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] The monument was created by [[Maya Lin]], who also created the [[Vietnam Veterans Memorial]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="splc"/> The Civil Rights Memorial was dedicated in 1989.<ref name="montadvertiser1"/>

The concept of Lin's design is based on the soothing and healing effect of water. It was inspired by a passage from King's 1963 "[[I Have a Dream]]" speech "...we will not be satisfied "until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream..."  The quotation in the passage, which is inscribed on the memorial, is a direct paraphrase of [[Amos 5:24]], as translated in the [[American Standard Version]] of the [[Bible]].  The memorial is a fountain in the form of an asymmetric inverted stone [[cone (geometry)|cone]].  A film of water flows over the base of the cone, which contains the 41 names included. It is possible to touch the smooth film of water and to alter it temporarily, which quickly returns to smoothness. The memorial is designed in a timeline manner. It begins with Brown v. Board in 1954, and ends with Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968.