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Pages in category "African-American museums in Alabama" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Official archives for the state of Alabama, features the Museum of Alabama with exhibits including Native American, military history, 19th- and 20th-century historic artifacts, photos, and art [3] Alabama Governor's Mansion: Montgomery Montgomery Official residence of Alabama's Governor. Open for tours. U.S. National Register of Historic Places ...
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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
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.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted that, with the addition of the memorial and the museum, Montgomery and Atlanta together provide a narrative of African-American history, as the latter has sites associated with national Civil Rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and local history as well. [36]