tailieunhanh - CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIAL

Like every artistic process, virtual sculpture (see figure 1 for example), requires a strong interaction between the artist and his artwork. Feeling the material being modeled enforces the metaphor of sculpting and the immersion of the user, making the creative activity easier. The need for haptic feedback is even stronger when the user visualizes his 3D sculpture on a standard screen: without force feedback, correctly positioning an editing tool with respect to the sculpture is difficult, since it may require changing the viewpoint several times to check the tool’s position | Smithsonian American Art Museum AMERICA PAST AND PRESENT CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ivil Rights Memoriđl education Smithsoman American Art Museum CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ivil Rights Memoriđl Civil Rights Memorial by Maya Lin. On 17 May 1954 in Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public elementary and secondary schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. In 1955 the Supreme Court ordered that desegregation of public schools begin with all deliberate speed. Since that time the federal courts have battled with school districts to enforce desegregation orders. The Brown decision also provided the impetus and moral foundation for challenges to segregation in all aspects of American life. In Montgomery Alabama a few blocks from the first White House of the Confederacy and the church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached the Civil Rights Memorial stands at the entrance to The Southern Poverty Law Center. The plaza was designed as a contemplative area a place to remember the civil rights movement to honor those killed during the struggle between 1954 and 1968 to appreciate how far the country has come in its quest for equality and to consider how far it has to go. The Center asked Maya Ying Lin born 1959 to create this first memorial to the American civil rights movement after she had completed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington . education Smithsoman American Art Museum LOOKING AT THE SCULPTURE Á large curved wall is the backdrop for a circular table. Water flows steadily over the black granite wall and table. On the wall are inscribed the biblical words that Martin Luther King Jr. often quoted We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. from Amos 5 24 But let judgment run clown as waters and righteousness as a mighty .