The metaphor behind the design of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is lost on no one in the remote and ordinary spots where the civil rights movement unfolded.
?With this faith, we will be able to hew out of a mountain of despair a stone of hope,? King said in his 1963 ?I Have a Dream? speech.
Across the South, a half-century of difficult hewing has produced dozens of memorials at the still highly charged scenes of murders, marches and triumphs. Among them, bus stops, lunch counters, a bridge and schools.
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