Exhibition titled determine, the 400 your struggle for black equality. This second section explores the period from the end of the civil war after the civil war, which ended slavery in the united states, through 1950. And this was a period that witnessed both progress and backlash for black americans. After the civil war, as black virginians and americans embraced new opportunities in the form of access to education, new civil rights, political participation, building new communities, starting to businesses and so forth as on the one hand black lives flourished, under the new promises afforded by freedom in american society. Black people also began to suffer backlash from white establishment that wanted to reassert its power, its sense of supremacy and its control over people of color, and at the same time that we see amazing strides and black process, we also see regress in the form of disenfranchisement, and legalized. Segregation in american. Society so, we will look at a few storie
These incidents to terrorism dont go anywhere americans were starts right now. Floodwaters in michigan last week and ended up maine galing with toxic chemicals from a dow Chemical Plant i have fair and cousins from drill our magazine to talk about it this is pretty disturbing article i mean if youre a resident or a farmer around that plant youre in big trouble right now but ill tell you the take on it was it was so odd to me the take on it was well the federal governments responsible no the federal governments not responsible for what happened here theyve allowed the infrastructure to fall apart and theyve allowed alchemical to do everything they wanted to do with their toxins in that Middle America that nobody to blame but them i really dont see anybody to blame but no right and this is a you know were suddenly dealing with this issue but these were failures that were set up for decades. As you mentioned the infrastructure the superfund site the dow chemical was running or or you know
Up the infrastructure there to protect it the walls around it needed to be higher because they had already predicted both the government in the company that this thing was susceptible to floodwaters that was a failure theyve known about it for years the infrastructure at the day i am that failed failed and caused the flood itself they knew that needed to be fixed and repaired and updated the company had actually already lost its license for failure to comply for years so were talking about catastrophic failures across the board state federal governments corporate you could not have had a more complete failure from every player all. I think that the detroit the water problem in detroit same kind of analysis infrastructure failure State Government does nothing about it but now this cat was named jacob carter scientist for a union concerned scientist. Comes out well this is a federal problem no its not a federal problem its partially a federal problem but when you are in the state and you
Floodwaters in michigan last week and ended up maine galing with toxic chemicals from a dow Chemical Plant i have fair and cousins from drill our magazine to talk about it this is pretty disturbing article i mean if youre a resident or a farmer around that plant youre in big trouble right now but ill tell you the take on it was it was so odd to me the take on it was well the federal governments responsible no the federal governments not responsible for what happened here theyve allowed the infrastructure to fall apart and theyve allowed dow chemical to do everything they wanted to do with their toxins in that Middle America that nobody to blame but them i really dont see anybody to blame but no right and this is a you know were suddenly dealing with this issue but these were failures that were set up for decades as you mentioned the infrastructure the superfund site the dow chemical was running or or you know not cleaning up basically they needed to clean up the infrastructure there to
Were standing in the middle of the exhibition titled determined. The 400 year struggle for black equality. This section explores the period from the end of the civil war after the civil war which ended slavery in the united states. Through 1950 and this was period that witnessed both progress and backlash for black americans. After the civil war as black virginiaens and americans embraced new opportunities in the form of ax success to education, new civil rights, political participation, building new communities. Starting new businesses and so forth as on one hand, black lives flourished under the new promises afforded by freedom and american society. Black people also began to suffer backlash from white establishment that wanted to reassert its power, sense of supremacy and its control over people of color. And at the same time we see amazing strides in black process, we also see regress in the form of disenfranchisement and legalized segregation in american society. So well look at f