The Dot Robinson Road Rally is usually held on Wednesday, the second day of the convention. The DRRR is a timed road run. The course is about 60 miles long and riders must average 30 mph. There are five checkpoints along the course that are not known to the riders until they reach them. This year 101 women participated.

Registration for the rally begins at 6 a.m. Traditionally everyone wears pajamas because of the early hour, but now women are showing up in silly costumes.

Beth drew #42, which meant she would start her ride at 8:42.
The starters have a digital clock and start a rider every minute.

The rally ended at the Harley dealer where they prepared hamburgers and hot dogs. There was a long line for food and the day was very hot, so we went to Subway for our usual Italian sub.

Beth didn’t score very well on her ride and thinks she didn’t start her analog clock properly since she was off by 2 minutes at each checkpoint. She might have to leave the Luddite world and upgrade to a digital timer next year.

There was free time in the afternoon. Beth visited the Legacy Museum and the National Peace and Justice Memorial, established by the Equal Justice Initiative. They are dedicated to telling the history of racial inequality and economic injustice in the U.S. and exposing the challenges we continue to face nearly four centuries after Africans were kidnapped and brought to America as slaves.

The museum, sits near the site of one of the two largest domestic slave markets in this country, where tens of thousands of enslaved people were trafficked. The interactive and static displays are powerful and stunning in their presentation.

About a 15-minutes walk away from the museum, upon a small rise in the city is the National Memorial for peace and Justice. An extremely well-conceived and executed installation, the memorial recognizes the thousands of black people who have been victims of lynchings and other terroristic activities in this country. Each hanging column represents a single county, or in a few cases a state, and has the names of the individuals who were murdered cut into the surface.

Though the researchers were able to document more than 4000 individuals, they acknowledge there were likely many, many more for which no records were kept. Outside, the columns are duplicated and are lined up in long rows, waiting to be claimed so that a suitable memorial may be erected in that locale to those who were terrorized.