Moton Museum History

Founded in 1965, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History showcases the world's largest permanent exhibit on African American culture. My visits there are always educational and profoundly moving. The museum has an incredible perspective on the past and the present journey of African Americans. At the same time, it takes us on a comprehensive journey of the African American contribution to the world. Today, I will take us on that journey and paint a vivid image of Charles H. Wright Museum.

In Virginia, it was very hard for a black student to receive a diploma because of the lack of education they received in their schools. Unless they attended a private school, which black children seldom did, they did not receive the same education as white students. Robert Russa Moton High School was one of the first and only schools for blacks in Prince Edward County (Heinemann). This school was built in 1939 to hold 180 students, and it lacked in many common things one may find at a white high school, like a gymnasium, cafeteria, science labs, and sports fields (Heinemann). About ten years later, because the number of students grew from 180 to 400, they built small buildings made of plywood and tarpaper instead of building a new school.

I visited the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center in Wilberforce, OH and inside this museum there are four different exhibits. After walking around for a while I came across this exhibit that talks about the History of Wilberforce University. It was very interesting to hear about the area from back then until now. It was very different back then but as laws began to get passed it changed. The exhibit on the History of Wilberforce University explores the start of Wilberforce university, the making of Central State University, and the uprising of Wilberforce University.

When I first enter, my initial perspective was questioned. I was asked how to describe the events of 1967. At first, I thought of it as a riot simply because that is the term I have heard others use all my life. Things change though. I was asked about whether I remember the events. However, I was not born yet. Did the events of 1967 catch Detroiters by surprise? I would say it did not catch them totally by surprise. They must have known that there was some tension that could easily snap. The final question I was asked was how it impacted my family. It impacted us indirectly because both my parents lived on the outskirts of Detroit at the time. My initial perspective would alter significantly as the museum exhibit unraveled the mysteries of

Ballston is the county seat of Saratoga County, New York. Its population is around 8700. Ballston is known for its strong community activities. Some of these include the Veterans Bike Path, an asphalt-covered path which was once a trolley path. It is also known for its Town of Ballston Community Library in nearby Burnt Hills, NY (4 miles). Aside from its collections of books, archives, and databases, the library also hosts a number of classes, workshops, and activities, including miniature golf. A great public library is an important resource to bolster your academic achievement. Another is a private tutor. Ballston tutors offer online or in-person tutoring sessions to give you the test prep and instruction you need to excel on your big exam.

In 1939 Robert Russa Moton High School opened for African American students in Prince Edward County. This school had no gymnasium, no cafeteria, no science laboratories, no athletic fields, and no plumbing. “Enrollment at the all-black Robert Russa Moton High School in Prince Edward

In the small farming community of Goodland, Kansas, stands the High Plains Museum. The High Plains museum offers numerous exhibits on the prairie life and the life of a Kansas homesteader throughout each era displayed. Out of all the exhibits to see, the Pioneer exhibit, the Dust Bowl Years exhibit, and the Purvis and Wilson helicopter exhibit make this museum particularly intriguing.

First, the important facts that this artifact presents is the different laws that were put on colored people that were enforced in many states around the U.S. These laws showed that colored don’t have the equal right to do what whites can do even go to the same places without being separated. Some of these laws included colored to sit in the back of the bus or even being separated by a solid partition that extended from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher. This list of the laws were very mean to the colored because of their racist they got judged and had different laws even though they were only human.The list of Jim Crow Laws are really long and show the least amount of freedom they had on colored. In the end, these laws

We woke up this morning with Allyson and Nancy planning to visit Gracelands and myself looking at going to the National Civil Rights Museum. After a quick hot buffet breakfast at Friday's the hotel restaurant we were off in our different directions. I had to walk about half a mile to the museum noticing the city was totally deserted. When I got to the museum it was closed and of course its only closed on Tuesday's. To explain more the museum is located next to the Lorraine Motel, the location where Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on the balcony of room 306 in 1968. For years after the shooting the motel fell into debt and was brought by a group of African American people and turned the museum into what it is today. So there was myself

An easy way to see the modern-day effects of the Civil War is in classrooms across the United States. Tony Horwitz in his book Confederates in the Attic found himself interacting with three different types of students. The first was a group of home-schooled children touring the capital building in Montgomery, Alabama. All white with conservative parents, they decided to create their kid’s curriculum from a Christian perspective, in this case teaching their children that slavery was not a big deal in starting the war. The kids were excited and visibly intrigued by the tour, but their gaps in knowledge became evident to Horwitz the longer he talked with the parents (355). The next class was taught by Rose Sanders, the director of the Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama, a museum dedicated to commemorating the gaining of rights by African Americans. In an attempt to help the black out of the area Sanders created a high school specially for black teenagers who dropped out of high school. Horwitz, upon visiting realized the deep-seeded anger installed in these

The one thing that I wish they would implement to their museum to make it more interesting is to add more Holocaustic casted models. I got this idea by visiting the African American museum. And what set them apart was that they had a whole set of statue models on display to place a person in that mindset of being there. If the Holocaust museum would issue more life-like cast, then I think people will feel more engaged in the tour. In the African American museum, I remember the faces on the life-like models. The faces with looks of confusions, fear, and sometimes happiness. I think by adding this would bring a whole new element to the Holocaust museum. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the opportunity. I do plan on returning in the near future. Maybe not to that museum in particular, but a more official museum like the ones in Germany. I plan on traveling across the world one day, and visiting the Holocaust museum in Aw>>> is defiantly on my

Each year at the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama, we welcome thousands of visitors, many of them students on school-sponsored trips. Among our goals is ensuring today

I don’t know how the wonderful music history of Memphis pass me by but somehow It did! I have always heard that Memphis is known for its musical history, especially the blues, but I never investigated the theory for myself. The instructor at the college required me to write a paper about the history of the Stax Museum in a reflection paper and I am glad she did. It influenced me to finally take the time to view the history of Memphis firsthand starting with the Stax Museum. While I was there it came to my attention that the Stax Museum was a record company established by Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton. The museum explained the original name for the company was satellite records and it showed me the good and bad experiences within the company.

We planned to visit Mill City museum after a friend recommended that we check it from the Minnesota Historical site. The museum is the most important and historical place where anyone who wants to know more about the Minnesota people. The museum contained historical articles and information. A lot of stuff was available including plant species and human origin. We later made our way to the science museum where displays of evolution. The main building of the Museum has its entire floor with colorful animated dioramas that display their traditional costumes of Minnesota people. On reaching the museum, we were met with a tour guide who took us through the place and described everything that we wanted to know about the Minnesota.

The public was able to witness for the first time the violence and police brutality used against many civil rights activist. The majority of the civil rights demonstrators in Alabama that day were high school students. The pictures of these children being attacked by dogs and sprayed with water from high-powered fire hoses were very disturbing and shocking to most viewers. It gave a more accurate and sympathetic account; one that the public hadn’t seen before,