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Multimedia exhibitions focus on the history of African-American life and the struggle for civil rights. The Oral History Project, one of the museum's multimedia exhibits, documents Birmingham's role in the Civil Rights Movement through the voices of movement participants. The museum is an affiliate in the Smithsonian Affiliations program.
Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States.It operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971. After closing, it became one of the first industrial sites (and the only blast furnace) in the U.S. to be preserved and restored for public use.
Alabama Mining Museum: Dora: Walker: Exhibits include a 1900s train and mining cars, one-room African American school, elementary school, post office, and depot. [8] Alabama Museum of Health Sciences: Birmingham Jefferson Medical [9] Alabama Museum of Natural History: Tuscaloosa: Tuscaloosa: Natural history [10] Alabama Music Hall of Fame ...
In the Legacy Museum is a large wall of shelves filled with dozens of gallon-size glass jars containing soil samples with the DNA of the lynching victims pulled from the roots of some of the trees ...
Arlington Antebellum Home & Gardens, or Arlington Historic House, is a former plantation and 6 acres (24,000 m 2) of landscaped gardens near downtown Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The two-story frame structure was built by enslaved people between 1845–50.
The museum includes a brief history of the transatlantic slave trade and highlights the survivors of the 45-day journey from Africa, AL.com reported. It tells the story of its most famous ...
Alabama: 2010 [148] Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum: Memphis: Tennessee: 1997 [149] Slave Mart Museum: Charleston: South Carolina: 1938 [150] Smith-Robertson Museum and Cultural Center Jackson: Mississippi: 1984 [151] Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum: Tallahassee: Florida: 1976 [152] Spady Cultural ...
The third addition, the sculpture park, is an effort to humanize the experience of the enslaved person living on a plantation. The centerpiece of the park will be a 100-by-40 feet monument to ...