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Design
The names included in the memorial are names of individuals who were killed between 1955 and 1968. The dates represent a time when legalized segregation was prominent. In 1956 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in schools was unlawful. 1968 was the year Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated. The monument was designed by Maya Lin. Lin also designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.[2] The Civil Rights Memorial was dedicated in 1989.[1]

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