The Legacy Museum

I visited The Legacy Museum, if not the first week, then the second week that it opened. The Legacy Museum was created by the Equal Justice Initiative and is located in Montgomery, Alabama. It’s a few blocks away from The National Memorial for Peace and Justice about a 15-minute or so walk and obviously a shorter distance driving.
The Legacy Museum is split into four parts or themes that chart the history of the systematic oppression of Black people. The first section is kidnapped, which relates to slavery. The second is terrorized which relates to lynching. The third, which is segregated relates to Jim Crow. And the fourth, which is the most modern relates to mass incarceration.
There’s a timeline of slavery’s transformation to convict leasing, black codes, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation. Essentially it’s like a timeline that moves you through The Legacy Museum. So you start out with slavery, the capture and enslavement of these people from Africa, their experiences once they get to America on through Emancipation, convict leasing, into the present and mass incarceration. It shows how the end of one period of injustice would then give way to a reformation of sorts and a new era of continued subjugation of Black people.
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[@sashathomas3650]

Thank you for the presentation! Having learned, and /or read about Olauda Equiano, Phillis Whethley, David Walker, Dred Scott, Ida Wells, and Homer Plessy, and Emit Till, and "Just Mercy." by Bryan Stevenson, and "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones ..., then recently, visited the Legacy Museum / Peace & Justice Memorial in Montgomery, AL. I thought over about Thomas Jefferson, Frederic Douglass, and the President Abraham Lincon and W.E.B. Du Bois and what's taking places here and overseas today, winter, 2023.... My learning about the United States of America continues as I wonder what my duty as a citizen of this nation.

[@shermanelder6813]

Listening to this is sad 😭 about what the slaves whent through

[@Tonywozere99]

this was published in The Guardian today ‘Truth-telling has to happen’: the museum of America’s racist history | Alabama | The Guardian :)

[@NoireHistory]

That's pretty ironic. I happened to find out about the museum a few days before its opening when I came across a headline on Twitter, a platform that I barely use. Pure chance. But the article made it sound interesting and I decided to check it out. If you're in the area and able, I certainly recommend visiting.