On November 17, 2013, construction on the National Museum of African American History and Culture reached a significant milestone with the arrival and installation of two of the museum's largest signature artifacts. A segregation-era railway car, circa 1918, and an early 20th-century guard tower from the Angola prison in Louisiana, too large to be installed once the building was completed, were lifted and lowered 60 feet into the ground--level of the building during early stages of construction. Both artifacts will be on display in the museum's inaugural exhibition "Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876--1968."
Images of Louisiana State Penitentiary courtesy of Henry L. Fuqua, Jr. Lytle Photograph Collection and Papers, Mss. 1898, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. Image of Angola guard tower courtesy of Daniel Atkinson.
7 май 2014
