On a blustery day last december my daughter sophie and i walked through the rectangular granite blocks of the national memorial for peace and justice in montgomery alabama.
Bryan stevenson granite.
Among similar granite rectangles that dot the memorial for the murdered jews of europe.
Modern day to kill a mockingbird.
The foundation also gave its 2020 award to milton delaware born u s.
It puts you under their bodies in the same way that a mob would be.
That example called to mind an idea from bryan stevenson an alabama lawyer and civil rights activist who has proposed holographic memorials that pop up and deliberately startle passers by at.
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Civil rights lawyer bryan stevenson 60 for his inspiring endeavor to reform the u s.
Ironically the movie which is based on true story includes real references to mockingbird which also happens to be set in alabama.
Where people are armed to the teeth where white racism.
After graduating from harvard bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs.
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Br he was a student at holy cross and then at yale law school beginning in 1971 and he discovered what he felt was a more insidious kind of racism than what he had known in the south.
We ban the international slave trade in 1808 which was actually before alabama was a state before mississippi was a state before louisiana was a state before the deep south had actually formed.
Instead he heads to alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation with the support of local advocate eva ansley.
Bryan stevenson the founder of the equal justice initiative had just opened the site two weeks before.
Br br corey robin and it s how we mostly remember clarence thomas in this country.
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Yes alas the same story different characters young black lawyer bryan stevenson but fortunately a different better ending.
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