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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 .
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 ...
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.
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 ...
In Marion there is also a pre-Civil War monument to the faithful slave. [28] Moulton: Confederate Monument, Lawrence County Courthouse (2006) by SCV, Lt. J. K. McBride Camp No. 241 and the Alabama Division. [29] Tuscumbia: Confederate Veterans Monument, Colbert County Courthouse (1911) by UDC, Tuscumbia Chapter. [30]
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 ...
Built from 1845–50 for William S. Mudd, a native of Kentucky. The plantation was in the community of Elyton prior to the American Civil War. It was used as a headquarters by federal troops during the war. The plantation and community were eventually absorbed by Birmingham, a city that Mudd helped establish after the war. 94000690 Atkins' Ridge