Remember With Jefferson County Memorial Project: Reckoning With The Jim Crow South
Join JCMP Director, Gina Mallisham for a curative examination into Jefferson County's past and the efforts of many to memorialize our victims of racial terror violence.
More than 33 people were lynched in Jefferson County between 1883 and 1940, victims of racial terror in the segregated, postwar South. This was allowed by a national system of terror and oppression that local governments, the press, religious institutions, and businesses were complicit in upholding. These residents lived through slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow. But their stories have mostly been lost. As we observe this societal movement to further civil and human rights, we invite you to remember them.
As part of the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, each January the Birmingham Public Library Archives Department sponsors Begin the Day: The Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture. Now in its twenty-first year, the King Lecture has featured civil rights activists, scholars, children’s book authors, and community leaders discussing civil rights history and contemporary human rights issues including immigrant rights, voting rights, human trafficking, and Islamophobia.
When: January 13, 2024, 11 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Where: Central Library, 2100 Park Place
Where: Central Library, 2100 Park Place
What: Begin the Day: The Twenty-first Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture
Details: Free and open to the public.
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