点评:I made a specific trip to visit Alabama to see various civil rights sites, including a visit to the Legacy Sites. The sites consist of The Legacy Museum, The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, and The National Memorial For Peace and Justice.
All of the sites are amazing and truly powerful. I had great expectations for them before I went and they far exceeded my expectations.
The Legacy Museum – Took you from the slavery ships to today’s ongoing struggle to gain, keep, and advance our civil rights. Everything from slave life to the domestic slave trade to the civil war to Jim Crow to the KKK to the lynchings to the civil rights movement to today.
The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park – The park has multiple sculptures and statues that depict so many aspects the civil rights movement. Too many great pieces of art work to describe. The most moving part for me was The National Monument To Freedom that has the last names of slaves from the 1870 census. You could look up your name to see if it connects you to your ancestors.
The National Memorial For Peace and Justice – This park focuses on the many lynchings that occurred. It is sad to see that people were subject to these lynchings for laws that were written just to punish those who were lunched as well as crazy customs (like being lynched for smiling at a white woman).
There is a boat ride down the Alabama river that takes you to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park but they also provide a shuttle to each of the locations.
The sites are truly amazing but one of the other amazing parts is that it only cost $5 and there’s no charge for parking.
翻译:我特意去了阿拉巴马州,参观了各种民权遗址,包括遗产遗址(Legacy Sites)。这些遗址包括遗产博物馆(Legacy Museum)、自由纪念碑雕塑公园(Freedom Monument Sculpture Park)和国家和平与正义纪念碑(National Memorial For Peace and Justice)。
所有这些遗址都令人叹为观止,震撼人心。去之前我对它们抱有很大的期望,而它们远远超出了我的预期。
遗产博物馆——带你从奴隶贩卖船到今天为争取、维护和推进我们的民权而进行的持续斗争。从奴隶生活到国内奴隶贸易,再到内战、吉姆·克劳法(Jim Crow)、三K党(KKK)、私刑、民权运动直至今日,应有尽有。
自由纪念碑雕塑公园——公园里有众多雕塑和雕像,描绘了民权运动的方方面面。太多伟大的艺术作品,难以一一描述。对我来说,最感人的部分是国家自由纪念碑,上面刻着1870年人口普查中奴隶的姓氏。你可以查找你的名字,看看它是否能让你与祖先联系起来。
国家和平与正义纪念馆——这个公园关注的是过去发生的多起私刑事件。令人悲伤的是,人们因为那些专门为惩罚被私刑者而制定的法律以及一些疯狂的习俗(比如因为对白人女性微笑而被私刑)而遭受这些私刑。
你可以乘船沿阿拉巴马河顺流而下,前往自由纪念碑雕塑公园,但他们也提供往返各个地点的班车。
这些景点确实令人惊叹,但另一个令人惊叹的是,停车只需5美元,而且免费。