There are several museums in the US that memorialize the period of slavery as well as the Civil Rights Struggle. The Freedom Center in Cincinnatti, OH http://www.freedomcenter.org/ ; The C. H. Wright Museum in Detroit, MI, http://www.maah-detroit.org/; The Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN, http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/ The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL, http://www.bcri.org/ just to name a few.
There are many, many more African-American Heritage sites around the country that pay homage to the legacy and contributions of People of Color to our great country
H. V. Lomax
Retired
Historian & Interpreter
of African American History
<html><DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV></html>> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:39:27 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Slave owner or slave> To: [log in to unmask]> > Ah well. Reparations is another matter entirely. > > In a moral sense, I am responsible for my own actions. I do not, and should not, feel guilt that many of my ancestors owned slaves; nor, for that matter, should I feel shame that at least one of my ancestors was enslaved. I am responsible for my actions and my choices.> > Disentangling the economic benefits that have accrued to me in the present because slavery was for so long a central element of the United States economy is an extraordinarily difficult task. In a practical sense, I don't know how one would do it.> > It certainly does seem possible, however, for us to memorialize this element of our collective past. I find it striking that we have a National Museum to memorialize the Holocaust, an event in which the United States was tangentially involved, and nothing at all to memorialize slavery and segregation, in which we as a nation were profoundly implicated. What does that say about our collective priorities, or for that matter about the way we fashion our public sense of our own history?> > ---- Original message ----> >Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:26:17 EST> >From: [log in to unmask] > >Subject: Re: Slave owner or slave > >To: [log in to unmask]> >> >I think America should demand reparations for slavery from the African > >states involved in the trade.> > > >Feel free to forward this to Jesse Jackson and/or other activists who > >believe in the slave reparation concept.> > > >J South> >> >> >> >**************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. > >(http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/> >2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)> >> >______________________________________> >To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at> >http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html> Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D.> Department of History> James Madison University> > ______________________________________> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at> http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html
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