the poem: Strange Fruit by Abel Meeropol Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant south, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here is fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop. Manifesto of the “Mobile Memory” History isn’t meant to be forgotten, but rather it is for acting as a mirror to reflect real life and possible outcomes if we follow the same actions as in history. The memorial is composed not as a static monument, but a moving form about experiencing the history of the American slavery in a boxcar like space. The reason behind using a mobile memorial is to be able to take history to the people instead of requiring them to travel far distances to a monument they wouldn’t normally go out their way to visit. It is to remind them of how slaves were transported on this very boxcar in conditions that hardly bearable and allowed for no freedom. The trip for the memorial would start from the capital Washington D.C, following the history of the railroad map, and cross four different states from VA to GA. The concept of using a boxcar as the form for the memorial of American slavery came from an image of the cotton bale during the time of slavery and also how slaves were transported just like the bale of cotton as merchandise ready to be used for making or producing something else. Slaves were being shipped by railway and dropped to certain slave owners’ places along with cotton that their own brethren had endured picking. A lot of the work they did was related to cotton. The material cotton fabric was also used as a part of the skin in order to build up a shadow moving effect between interior and exterior. The goal of building this moving memorial is to also arouse more people to remember this part of the history and by having their own experience of moving through this space be more conscious of the hardships that Africans faced during the birth of America. Once the train stops, the center part would open up and extend to a bigger space which use as a lecture or music show place to the public, but still remain connected with the main part. The two entrances on both sides of the boxcar would come out on the ground as stairs, and each of them only wide enough for one person to pass through. This idea behind was picked up from a wood leash that the slave owners use to constraint two slaves together. This wood leash connected two slaves’ life together back then. The American slavery time line is designed as the pattern on the translucency ceiling. So when people walk through this boxcar, full of “memory space”, the timeline will be lit up on the top and the pictures and monuments coordinating to the timeline will be on both sides of the wall.