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The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration is a museum in Montgomery, Alabama, that displays the history of slavery and racism in America. This includes the enslavement of African-Americans , racial lynchings , segregation , and racial bias .
Following the patenting of the cotton gin (in 1793), the War of 1812, and the defeat and expulsion of the Creek Nation in the 1810s, European-American settlement in Alabama was intensified, as was the presence of slavery on newly established plantations in the territory. Alabama was admitted as the 22nd state on December 14, 1819.
American Sport Art Museum and Archives: Daphne: Baldwin: Gulf Coast sports. Located on the campus of the United States Sports Academy [21] American Village: Montevallo: Shelby Living history [22] Ancient Wars Museum: Madison Madison aka Alabama War Museum, Exhibits from present day to 8,000 BC [23] Anniston Museum of Natural History: Anniston ...
Even after the Civil War, Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, Jim Crow, segregation and white supremacy prevailed, resulting in other forms of racial ...
The second floor contains exhibits featuring the Selma to Montgomery marches, the history of Native Americans in the state from the Pre-Columbian era to the Indian removal, and the history of warfare involving Alabamians from the French Colonial period to the Vietnam War. The Alabama Sampler Gallery contains Alabama-related artifacts ranging ...
The exhibit is part on an expanded museum created by the Equal Justice Initiative that focuses on the legacy of slavery in America. The expanded Legacy Museum — a companion to the group’s well ...
By the end of the war, more than 180,000 African Americans, mostly from the South, fought with the Union Army and Navy as members of the US Colored Troops and sailors. [citation needed] May 2 – The first North American military unit with African-American officers is the 1st Louisiana Native Guard of the Confederate Army (disbanded in February ...
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened last Saturday, exactly 163 ...