The Designers Behind the Exhibits

Thursday's grand opening of the Selma Interpretive Center's second

 and third-floor exhibits included the hospitality of exhibit designers

 John Wood and Linda Byers.

 As employees of the National Park Service's regional office in Atlanta,

 the pair designed, built and installed the new exhibits

 depicting the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March

 and the Courageous Eight activists. 

"We wanted to recognize not only the Courageous Eight

 but other individuals as well," Byers said.

 Woods built the background for the second-floor exhibit (shown in photo),

 and Byers designed the Courageous Eight banners that hang

 in the third-floor meeting room. 

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