Jim Crow Museum Report

Another issue with the statues are the actual subjects monumentalized. Notable people that are commemorated with having models of themselves publicly displayed are usually figures that the people of America are proud of, like Abraham Lincoln or Harriet Tubman. Confederate statues, however, are the exception; for they are monuments that represent the institutionalization of racism. “Our public spaces should not glorify historical policies of hatred and racism,” argues Kevin Kamenetz, executive and president of the Maryland Association of Counties (Eversley 2017). That single phrase perfectly sums up what people across the country are attempting to convey, and expresses the main issue that many have with these statues. No person who fought for the right to keep humans as property is deserving of modern honor.

“‘A great nation does not hide its history, it faces its flaws and corrects them.”’ George W. Bush spoke these words at the grand opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Nelson). He said this in hopes of keeping monuments reflecting slavery and segregation standing so people today could learn from mistakes in the past. Most monuments dealing with the topic of slavery are Confederate monuments, but they are causing controversy over their true meaning. Some people believe Confederate monuments are about southern pride, but many think they are symbols of racism (Ingraham). The debate over these monuments has caused violent protests like in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a Robert E. Lee statue was removed. Although Confederate monuments anger many people because of the history behind them, they provide lessons that can be taught to help end racism and make a better country. Confederate monuments and statues need to stay to preserve the history of the United States so it is not repeated, but the meaning to them should be altered to show segregation is immoral.

Depending on the placement of the monument the importance of the events contues genrations on. For an example, inorder for placing something of sagnificant value, the holocaust, would be placed somehwere of sagnifcant value, like a nations capital, but just anywhere in the nations capital. Eventhough DC is the nations capital "placeing the holocaust museum in a mall in DC is disrespectful and offensive" to the people who died and the servivers(source E). Just because its the national capital doesnt mean a mall in the nations capital is appropreate, besides lives were lost, not material things being bought. The failure for the creator(s) to think of that stripped the meaning and the pain behind the holocuast away. The placement of that museum made fun of, or even mocked the holocuast as if it is important to be remebered by America but not important to petray horrifying details of it. If the placement of the museum was to be in central DC near the White House, it creates a more important rule in Americas everyday life, because its near where the prisident lives, its near where people go to live the American dream. It would reinforce the meaning of the tragidy, the menaing of being saought out just becuase of you religion, the meaning of being gased alive, the meaning of being torn away from your family, the meaning of starving in the cold winters, and lastly

Instead of trying to defend and preserve something that was clearly one of our ugliest moments in history, we should demolish the statues. The statues serve as a reminder that slavery was once okay and that isn’t something people should have to think about when they enter a park or a college campus. It won’t erase the history of it or cause us to forget what happened in the past because we know what happened and it is strongly ingrained into us at this point. However, the removal of the statues and monuments would be a step forward for equality and peace which is what we

Still today the museum reminds us about the struggle of civil rights and education. The museum is a beautiful building that truly helps show the story. There are different items you can touch, sound effects, interviews of students who protested, actual desks and a fire that’s warm. In the beginning of the tour you sit in a room that is meant to portray the auditorium and make you feel like you are actually there on April 23rd 1951, where Barbara Johns gathered the school to discuss going on strike. This scene was created perfectly, it showed the paint coloring, forty-eight stars on the flag, different colored chairs, and cracks on the walls. All of these aspects help set the mood and feel to help the everyday people try to understand and relate to this important moment in history that happened right here in Farmville, Virginia. There is so much history here which is why I think it is so important and why this certain historic moment has such a big impact on our town. This event led to many different cases that helped create equal education for all schools in the nation. I was grateful for this experience and going to go and visit the museum and learn more history about Farmville. I also find it truly amazing that during this time there was so much racism, and segregation, and unequal rights, and now almost eighty years later we go to a university with so many different races, ethnicities, and background. I do agree that there is still predigest people and discrimination, but we have to admit that we have gotten a lot better. I do think that a protest like this could still happen in today’s time. There are still protest today about discrimination involving law enforcement and everyone has their own view on the situations that occur. The protest and strikes will always happen, I just hope in the next twenty years at most we can move on from this idea of discriminating each other and truly

Statues, monuments and historical markers across the United States were settled to memorize the confederacy around 150 years after the  Civil War ended. They are interpreted as history and honor heritage markers, but on the contrary, some think they are racist symbols of America’s dark legacy of slavery.

Faced by recent protests and events, memorials and monuments remembering Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy should be removed from public areas because they were not originally built to honor them, but rather to convey the message of white supremacy and continuing slavery, and into museums or archives. Most statues were built in the early 1900’s, during a time of racial segregation and the implementation of the Jim Crow laws. It is no coincidence that most of these statues were built during this time, when whites felt and were indeed superior to blacks. The message was clear that they wanted to maintain white supremacy and subjugate blacks. Eric Zorn writes that southerners built these statues as “middle fingers to those who battled segregation

Every day people wake up, get ready for the day, and go to work or school. By the end of the day, these individuals may end up failing a test, get demoted, receive a raise in their salaries, or get selected as employee of the month. The answer to whether or not these achievements and failures are a product of these people’s merit and effort are often questioned. Looking at the American society, there are many issues that occur which keep members of society from being able to say that these achievements and failures were due to their merit and effort. The issues that are able to support this idea that American society is unfair and that an individual’s fate is not largely a product of his or her merit and effort are income trends, the gender

The museum that I decided to visit was the California African American museum, located in the Exposition park by the Coliseum and USC school. I knew that by visiting this museum, I would learn more about African American culture and lifestyle, which I thought it would be interesting to learn about another culture. What, I expected to see there was African American’s art creation, music, maybe see a few things about their old lifestyle, and the difficulty they once had to face. To be honest, I don't really know much about African Americans history nor culture, besides the way they were treated it due to racism. And how Martin Luther king Jr fought for their civil rights, by doing anti-segregation protests and delivers his famous speech I Have

Blacks have undergone centuries of hardships and are only now being accepted as a race.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is an institution that authentically depicts the journey of not only Black Americans, but the United States as a whole. From ancient beginnings in Nabta Playa to today’s influential Black innovators, this museum provides realistic recreations of both the plights and triumphs of African Americans through their “And Still We Rise” exhibit.

After the end of Reconstruction in the Southern United States, many emancipated slaves looked to the North for a number of opportunities that evaded them in the Jim Crow south. Either individually, as a family, or sometimes as a whole community, African Americans made their way to more northern states. The ability to move – not just from plantation to plantation but now around the entire country – as well as own land, and receive and education in order to earn a skilled-labor job were hallmarks of the newly free group. Newspapers became important staples in these new, majority black communities. The Wichita Protest in Kansas was produced in the early 1900s and focused itself on everything from social to economic to political issues. Although

The best option would be to keep these statues in their original place or in a museum only if an updated supplemental statue or plaque is added that indicates how things are different at the present time. By keeping the Confederate statues and plaques inside a museum, the message those pieces present can be controlled by presenting them with additional context; doing so will allow the stricter presentation of information preventing the further empowerment of groups that wish to use the statues to represent hate in modern society. Pitcaithley recalled that in New Mexico on the Santa Fe Plaza Obelisk monument that represented Native Americans, an “activist carved out [racial slurs]” (Pitcaithley). Instead of masking the vandalism the state decided to take this opportunity and enlighten the locals about racism and how a lifeless monument, that they have become desensitized to, can cause such an enormous hate towards certain groups of

On December 7, 1956, I was getting on a bus headed towards New York. As I was trying to find a seat, I saw an open seat right in front of the white people section and sat in it. A few moments after I sat down, a few other men got on the bus. After all of them filled the rest of the white seats, one man didn’t have a seat. After the bus driver got up and saw the man standing in the middle of the aisle, he got up and told all of the African-American people in the first row to get up and let this man have a seat. So I slowly got up and moved around the lady that I sat next to. I expected her to get up along with me but she remained still. After I had made it to the back of the bus where all of the other African american people stood, THe bus

Secondly, placement is a key factor in creating a monument of someone or an event. As described in Source E, placement could offend the surrounding population. In this source, the Holocaust Museum is located in The Mall in Washington, DC and it offended both Jewish and non-Jewish communities. This is “primarily due to the fact that a museum dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust would be built in the United States, who did little to stop the Holocaust from occurring, or…”...open our shores to the few survivors…””. The United States didn’t act on what it stands for, equality and freedom, and so to have it there seemed to be a sign of disrespect to many. On the other hand, supporters believed, such as George Will, a political columnist, that, “No other nation has a broader, graver responsibility in the world...No other nation needs citizens trained to look like in the face.” Due to what the United States stands for, he says this because by displaying your mistakes you can create a