To get on buses traveling through the South was very dangerous. It was dangerous, but it worked. By November 1, , these segregated waiting room signs were gone. King and Rosa Parks inspired me to get in the way and to get in trouble. When I was young, my siblings and I used to gather around our black-and-white television for Saturday morning cartoons. Our shows were interrupted by commercials for Slinkys, Lionel Trains and my own favorite: the Crissy doll.
The Crissy doll had a rope of hair coming out the back of her head. By pressing her stomach, the excited girls in the commercials could make it cascade past her knees. As a child of the s, I was growing up with the black power movement in the pocket of my cutoff dungarees. The first black congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm, had recently run for president.
My mother grew up in the very different world of the Jim Crow South, around the time Kenneth and Mamie Clark brought their white and black dolls to segregated classrooms. The African-American psychologists were based in New York Kenneth was the first African-American tenured professor in the City College system and they wanted to know how segregation affected black students. How did these children define beauty, intelligence, their own brown selves?
They found that children at segregated schools tended to assign more positive characteristics to white dolls and negative ones to black dolls. She told us that her only doll for years had been a black Raggedy Ann made by a neighbor. Even when other dolls showed up in the house, that first one had remained her most adored. As an adult, she wore her hair in an Afro and carried a red, black and green hair pick in her bag. Rather than shake our self-esteem, though, this helped us form our much-needed double-consciousness.
We knew our own dolls waited for us, smiling out from dark faces. We knew we were powerful, beautiful and bright.
But they served as testimony in Brown v. Board of Education. In that way, those children of segregation ended up having a voice more powerful than they could have imagined. I want to reach into the past and pull them into now, saying, Look at how you changed the world.
It is art object, performance, and political statement evoking a pivotal moment in the long history of the struggle for social justice in the United States. Collaboratively produced by seven artists and activists involved in the protests that erupted in the aftermath of the August police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the coffin-shaped, mirror-clad casket reflects the work that finally placed police violence in black communities on mainstream U. The mirrors, in fact, serve as an apt metaphor for new technologies of communication in 21st-century movements against state violence.
Mirror Casket marks this contemporary moment, when the state has finally been compelled to acknowledge the link between its repressive apparatuses and racism. Smartphones and body cameras have become the looking glass compelling the recognition that black lives matter. And Mirror Casket demands more powerful and far-reaching forms of justice. We will have to reimagine policing and punishment and ultimately will have to remake our democracy. Because they must have wanted the symbol of their gospel visible to all, not only.
In the aftermath. In the short depth of field, everything. If you could look beyond it—. Instead, his lens must find. And, as if to remind us of the angels, how.
The house, partially demolished, stands on a wide plot overlooking the Mediterranean. He wrote longhand on legal pads. I had come back from Birmingham. We went to Birmingham because the situation was desperate. Every demonstration you almost had to expect you might be killed with all of these bombings taking place. But we had made progress. This was going to be a hot day in the sun. We were tired!
You all need to be here. Come on, we have a hotel room set up for you. He was working on his speech in the suite the FBI [later] had bugged. There was nobody there. Gradually, people began marching from the train station, and then buses were coming in from cities as far as Chicago, New York and Boston.
The unions in Philadelphia and New York made these police brutality signs. I was looking around, watching the crowd. We were afraid that somebody would try to disrupt the march—start a fight, a ruckus.
Our staff scattered through the crowds, making sure that no trouble came about. Once [officials in Washington] realized they were not going to stop the march, they began to cooperate with little things, like Port-a-Potties.
There were as many white people there as there were blacks. That was not true in the South, you see. There was white institutional support. We had the support of the government. I felt very good about the march. But it dragged on and on. You could hear the speakers all the way back to the Washington Monument. Out from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, we had about 30 rows of chairs for the celebrities. Sidney Poitier, as well. When Dr. King spoke, it pulled everybody together. This transformed us almost immediately into an integrated national movement on freedom and rights.
I had a sudden realization: This was the right thing to do. The five-story, ,square-foot limestone building sits on more than four acres of what is made to look like wetlands. The museum features approximately , items that represent more than 12, years of history and 1, indigenous American cultures.
It also offers exhibits, film screenings, public programs, cultural presentations, and school programs. This incredible museum features the largest collection of air- and spacecraft in the world and is also a center for research on historic aviation, spaceflight, planetary science, geophysics, and terrestrial geology.
The current exhibit space of 22 galleries and more than , square feet of floor space opened in Most of the hundreds of aircraft, spacecraft, rockets, missiles, and other aviation artifacts on display are originals. Some highlights you can expect to see include the Spirit of St. Several shows are offered daily and take visitors through the night sky with a first-of-its-kind Sky VisionTM dual digital projection system and digital surround sound. One of the best museum shops is also here, and dining facilities are offered on-site.
Museum tours are offered daily at am and 1pm. There is no public parking at the museum, but several public pay lots are nearby. You can also see some non-dinosaur related stuff at the Smithsonian. The design is an open concrete cylinder feet in diameter standing on four large supports.
The idea behind this structure was for it to provide a sharp contrast to everything else around it. It succeeded. This modern art museum, which opened in the s, is part of the Smithsonian Institution and houses one of the most noted collections of contemporary paintings and sculptures in the country focusing on the post-World War II era.
A sculpture garden is located outside the museum. The building is mostly underground and contains the largest public collection of African art in the nation with approximately 9, artifacts. Pieces include sculpture, jewelry, musical instruments, maps, films, and photographs.
Sackler Gallery Independence Ave. Street NW. Lives of American presidents, poets, activists, actors and visionaries are portrayed at the National Portrait Gallery. Location: 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE. Are you a stamp collector? Location: Pennsylvania Avenue NW. The Renwick Gallery exhibits American decorative and contemporary arts and crafts from the 19 th through the 21 st centuries.
The building is projected to reopen in In connection with the Freer Gallery, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery also showcases Asian art. Featured here are temporary and permanent Asian art exhibitions from ancient to contemporary times. Location: Jefferson Drive SW. Location: Alexander Hamilton U. Custom House, New York City. The New York site of the American Indian Museum presents the life, culture and traditions of the Native American people from around the world through exhibitions, live performances and film screenings.
Currently the museum is closed for renovation but is expected to reopen on December 12, As you can see, any and everyone who visits the Smithsonian Institution finds something that interests them.
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