Obama Designates 3 New Civil Rights National Monuments

by | Jan 13, 2017 | News, Politics News | 0 comments

Obama has been busy in his last days, either he is trying to genuinely get the most out of his last moments at the helm of the country or he is just worried about what black people will think about him he leaves!

Either way, to add to the list of other snap announcements, he has just designated 3 new sites as national monuments and they are all civil rights related.

Obama said in a White House statement. “These monuments preserve the vibrant history of the Reconstruction Era and its role in redefining freedom.”

The 3 sites are an Alabama Church where four young black girls were killed by a bomb, an Alabama Freedom Riders monument and a former school for freed slaves in South Carolina.

Mic.com summed up a little about each monument, they said:

The designated site in Birmingham, Alabama, comprises the Sixteenth Street Baptist church, which acted as headquarters for civil rights meetings in the 1960s. The predominantly black church was bombed by white supremacists on the morning of Sept. 15, 1963, killing four young girls and injuring many more.

The newly designated monument in Anniston, Alabama includes the former Greyhound bus station where, in May of 1961, a 200-person mob of white people attacked a bus full of Freedom Riders — civil rights activists who rode interstate buses throughout the South to promote integration.

The national monument in Beaufort County, South Carolina, includes Penn Center on St. Helena Island, the location of the former Penn School, which served as one of the first schools for freed slaves in the United States.

A school for freed slaves was first established in a church on St. Helena Island in 1862, enrolling 80 students. In 1865, the school got its own three-room building and was officially named the Penn School.

Read more on Mic.

 

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