Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 ...
A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived ...
The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama During World War I (2008) Permaloff, Anne, and Carl Grafton. Political Power in Alabama (University of Georgia Press, 1995) Sellers, James B. The Prohibition Movement in Alabama, 1702–1943 1943. Thomas, Mary Martha. The New Women in Alabama: Social Reform and Suffrage, 1890–1920 (1992) Thomas ...
The Civil War was fought almost entirely in the South and the southern states of the Confederacy were faced with the difficulties of rebuilding a war-devastated economic, political, and social landscape. Many people in South (along with some federal political leaders) expected life after reunification to be relatively the same as before the war.