I recently took a day trip to Birmingham as part of my goal to visit as many Southern cities as possible while living in Atlanta. I was attracted to visiting the city by its role in the history of the Civil Rights Movement and also the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute was founded in 1992 and is located in Birmingham’s historic Civil Rights District.
A diorama represents what classrooms looked like at the time. The classroom of the segregated White school is nice and clean looking. The chairs, desks, and textbooks are new and in good condition. The colored classroom doesn’t necessarily look dirty but everything looks old. The textbooks look worn out and the desks look like they’ve been around forever. It’s a really great visual representation of the fallacy of the separate but equal ideology. People were separate but things certainly weren’t equal.
Black people made up the majority of the workforce but their employment options were limited within mainstream society. They were relegated to positions that wouldn’t really allow them an opportunity to move up economically or achieve financial security. A lot of people in the area worked for mines and mills in the community. Due to Jim Crow and racism, Black people were usually relegated to the most dangerous and physically demanding jobs. And then to top that off, they were also paid pretty lowly. This contributed to Birmingham’s Black community creating its own business district in the Downtown area.
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