Civil Rights Memorials

Civil and political rights are a class of rights and freedoms that protect individuals from unwarranted action by government and private organizations and individuals and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression. The struggle for Equality has left a rich history of lessons learned. We welcome any Civil Rights Memorial fram any corner of the world.

Some of the locations associated with the Civil rights movement in the United States, such as Birmingham, Alabama's 16th Street Baptist Church and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama are well known while other locations still exist but have long been forgotten. Let's preserve the history of these locations by finding and logging them as waymarks so that future generations can know of these historic locations and benefit from the lessons learned at these locations.

The categories of Civil Rights event locations here:

• Civil rights movement in Northern Ireland
• Canada's Quiet Revolution
• Civil rights movement in the United States
• The struggle to end apartheid in South Africa
• Chicano Movement
• American Indian Movement
• Gender equity issues
• LGBT rights and gay liberation

Posting instructions

1. The post must relate to one of the following Civil Rights:
• Age
• Disability
• Gender equality (women's suffrage)
• National Origin
• Race (the U.S. Civil Rights movement fits here)
• Religion
• Sexual Orientation


2. Determine and provide the latitude and longitude (in the WGS84 datum) by physically visiting the site.



3. You may name your Waymark Listing anything you like within reason but it should provide some indication of the nature of the site. Consider adding a descriptive tag at the beginning of the name to further assist Waymarking participants to locate the Waymark.
   
   As a guideline, the following is a suggested naming scheme for listings in this category: Freedom Corner - Jackson, MS.



4. Quick Description, is just that, a quick description of the memorial. As a suggestion (not a requirement), it is also nice to include the name location (i.e. the street or park name) in your description. Help others find your waymark.



5. In the Detailed Description provide an explanation of why the site is important in the history of Civil Rights including any pertinent dates. Please document your sources. If you are including any text from the monument, then your source is the monument. If you wrote it, then no need to specify your source.



6. One of more photograps taken by you. (No need for you or your GPSr to be in picture)

A few suggestions

• First and foremost, have fun and enjoy yourself.


• Take lots of pictures from more than one location around the monument. It is better to have extra pictures and not need them, then to get home and find out you got a great picture of the back of some ones head. Hopefully you are using a digital camera and all those extra pictures are cheap insurance.


• Try and take some close up shots. A good picture of any text on the monument will help you write your description.


• Look around you, there may be another waymark right under your feet.

• Waymarks can be added to this category
• New waymarks of this category are reviewed by the category group prior to being published
• Category is visible in the directory