At least some of the twenty-somethings reading this will be living in that seemingly distant year...2065....the year Alabama commemorates celebrates marks the 200th Anniversary of the end of the U.S. Civil War.
Will the events held fifty years from now be different than those held this year for the 150th?
Montgomery Advertiser columnist Josh Moon writes today that there are signs of the war that should be eliminated and replaced with a statue that is missing from Montgomery: one of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Moon points out there are statues of King worldwide, but none in the city where he rose to prominence, Montgomery, but no shortage of statues and markers honoring leaders of the Confederacy.
Not to long ago, there was also a movement to add a statue of another Civil Rights hero to the state capitol grounds...one for Rosa Parks.
She is memorialized on a stamp and in statues far and wide...including one in the U.S. Capitol Building, but not in her hometown.
The city of Montgomery recently added two sculptures honoring the Civil Rights Movement "foot-soldiers".
The 60th anniversary of Rosa's refusal to give up the seat she paid for on a city bus is seven months away. Is that too short a time for an outdoor prominent statue to be added in her honor in the city where she took her stand?
Will the events held fifty years from now be different than those held this year for the 150th?
Montgomery Advertiser columnist Josh Moon writes today that there are signs of the war that should be eliminated and replaced with a statue that is missing from Montgomery: one of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Moon points out there are statues of King worldwide, but none in the city where he rose to prominence, Montgomery, but no shortage of statues and markers honoring leaders of the Confederacy.
Not to long ago, there was also a movement to add a statue of another Civil Rights hero to the state capitol grounds...one for Rosa Parks.She is memorialized on a stamp and in statues far and wide...including one in the U.S. Capitol Building, but not in her hometown.
The city of Montgomery recently added two sculptures honoring the Civil Rights Movement "foot-soldiers".
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| In Cottage Hills, Montgomery, Ala. |
The 60th anniversary of Rosa's refusal to give up the seat she paid for on a city bus is seven months away. Is that too short a time for an outdoor prominent statue to be added in her honor in the city where she took her stand?
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