"We need an understanding of how architecture is very much complicit in injustice," says Mabel Wilson, one of the Memorial's designers. See new images from the demonstration in this updated story.
Arad, the architect of the September 11 Memorial in New York, designed a courtyard to honor the nine victims and five survivors of the 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a project of the Equal Justice Initiative in collaboration with MASS Design Group, opens in Montgomery on April 26, along with a museum.