The invisible fight
"If you give your life to a cause in which you believe and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done." - Coretta Scott King
I walked through the National Civil and Human Rights Museum in Atlanta today. It's a full-sensory experience that immerses you in the sounds of conflict, the sights of the fight, the shifts in human culture, and helps you encounter a living sense of history.
With headphones on, sitting on a diner stool at a replica diner bar table, I experienced an audio simulation of enduring a lunch counter protest.
I sat with my hands on the counter, as the audio created the sonic experience of men surrounding me. They called me names, and spoke right into my ear, husky and venomous voices spitting at me from all sides. I could hear someone at the diner get dragged away, feet kicking on the tile floor while they attacked him, all the while th…
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