BGuthrie Photos: DC -- U Street -- African American Civil War Museum -- Internal Exhibits

DC -- U Street -- African American Civil War Museum -- Internal Exhibits:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. AACWMI_190923_005.JPG: The Glorious March to Liberty Civil War to Civil Rights The African American Civil War Museum honors the Americans of African descent who fought to save the Union and secure the blessings of liberty for themselves and their posterity. The struggle for liberty and equality under the law has characterized the experiences of Africans and their descendants in the United States. This is only a fraction of their story.
2. AACWMI_190923_010.JPG: The American Colonies
3. AACWMI_190923_013.JPG: Building a Nation
4. AACWMI_190923_016.JPG: Africans Arrive in America
5. AACWMI_190923_019.JPG: Merchants of Human Cargo
6. AACWMI_190923_028.JPG: Cargo of the Middle Passage
7. AACWMI_190923_032.JPG: Laborers and Warriors
8. AACWMI_190923_035.JPG: Prisoners of War
9. AACWMI_190923_042.JPG: The War for Independence
10. AACWMI_190923_044.JPG: Freedom Fighters
11. AACWMI_190923_056.JPG: Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
12. AACWMI_190923_075.JPG: 1861 Seeking Freedom "Stampede of Slaves from Hampton to Fortress Monroe"
13. AACWMI_190923_079.JPG: Conceived in Liberty
14. AACWMI_190923_082.JPG: Delicate Balance
15. AACWMI_190923_086.JPG: Early Civil Rights Leaders
16. AACWMI_190923_089.JPG: The Prince Makes a Northern Speaking Tour
17. AACWMI_190923_095.JPG: The War of 1812
18. AACWMI_190923_098.JPG: A Military Necessity
19. AACWMI_190923_102.JPG: Jackson's Colored Soldiers
20. AACWMI_190923_112.JPG: United States Slave Trade
21. AACWMI_190923_115.JPG: Enslaved Americans using the first cotton gin
22. AACWMI_190923_116.JPG: Cotton became King
23. AACWMI_190923_117.JPG: Awakened by Fear
24. AACWMI_190923_120.JPG: Rights Secured in Providence
25. AACWMI_190923_126.JPG: Southern Ideas of Liberty
26. AACWMI_190923_128.JPG: Nat Turner's Demonstration
27. AACWMI_190923_130.JPG: Southern Ideas of Liberty
28. AACWMI_190923_132.JPG: To Secure the Blessings of Liberty
29. AACWMI_190923_136.JPG: The Hunted Slaves, by Richard Ansdell Bloodhounds helped patrollers track down fugitive slaves. Fugitives devised various tactics to deceive the hounds, but sometimes they simply killed them.
30. AACWMI_190923_140.JPG: Fugitives for Freedom The Christiana Affair
31. AACWMI_190923_143.JPG: Bullets for Ballots
32. AACWMI_190923_145.JPG: Preparing for War
33. AACWMI_190923_147.JPG: The Anti-Slavery Movement Crimes Against God and Man
34. AACWMI_190923_153.JPG: The Underground Railroad: Enslaved Americans in wagon and on foot escaping slavery
35. AACWMI_190923_154.JPG: The Mystery
36. AACWMI_190923_156.JPG: Anti Annexation Procession in opposition to the annexation of Texas as a slaveholding state
37. AACWMI_190923_158.JPG: James G. Birney a former slaveholder from Kentucky
38. AACWMI_190923_161.JPG: In Their Own Words
39. AACWMI_190923_167.JPG: Wiiliam Wells Brown (1814-1884)
40. AACWMI_190923_174.JPG: To Secure the Blessings of Liberty
41. AACWMI_190923_178.JPG: The Planter's Demand for Labor
42. AACWMI_190923_183.JPG: Shackles These shackles were used to prevent captives from escaping when they were transported in the domestic slave trade. After 1808, the domestic slave trade became very profitable as slave traders transported their human property from the East to the West and Deep South.
43. AACWMI_190923_186.JPG: Ship Shackles These shackles were used to secure African captives in the belly of ships on their Middle Passage, from Africa to the Americas. Though the trans-Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in 1808, an illegal trade continued to bring Africans to America.
44. AACWMI_190923_188.JPG: Bill of Sale This Bill of Sale is for an eleven-year-old girl named Leathy. She sold for $600 in June 1834 and would have been thirty-eight years old when the Civil War began, if she was still alive.
45. AACWMI_190923_192.JPG: Letter of Complaint This letter was submitted in 1854 because the newly acquired woman was too sick to perform the labor for which she was purchased. A refund was demanded because she was "defective property."
46. AACWMI_190923_202.JPG: To Secure the Blessings of Liberty
47. AACWMI_190923_204.JPG: "We will Outlive Judge Taney" Dred Scott
48. AACWMI_190923_211.JPG: Canada West, League Headquarters
49. AACWMI_190923_213.JPG: Canada West, League Headquarters John Brown at League Headquarters
50. AACWMI_190923_216.JPG: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, Interior of the Engine-House, just before the gate was broken by the storming party
51. AACWMI_190923_221.JPG: Frederick Douglass
52. AACWMI_190923_225.JPG: The Last Bid for the Status Quo
53. AACWMI_190923_228.JPG: Electing Secession
54. AACWMI_190923_235.JPG: "Lincoln's Column"
55. AACWMI_190923_240.JPG: Lincoln, the Moderate Republican
56. AACWMI_190923_243.JPG: The Candidates for President Divide the National Map
57. AACWMI_190923_247.JPG: The Civil War Begins A Dynasty Overthrown, A Union Dissolved
58. AACWMI_190923_260.JPG: Declared a War "To Preserve the Union"
59. AACWMI_190923_261.JPG: Seeking the Right to Fight
60. AACWMI_190923_264.JPG: For Light and Liberty
61. AACWMI_190923_271.JPG: Slavery & the War Effort
62. AACWMI_190923_277.JPG: A Military and Humane Necessity
63. AACWMI_190923_284.JPG: Slavery and the Union
64. AACWMI_190923_286.JPG: Resolution for Emancipation
65. AACWMI_190923_288.JPG: Campaigns to Preserve the Union
66. AACWMI_190923_296.JPG: Arming Men of African Descent
67. AACWMI_190923_299.JPG: Map of the vicinity of Richmond and Peninsular Campaign in Virginia
68. AACWMI_190923_301.JPG: Yorktown, Va., vicinity. Headquarters of Gen. George B. McClellan, Camp Winfield Scott, May 3, 1863
69. AACWMI_190923_302.JPG: Waiting for Success
70. AACWMI_190923_303.JPG: Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's House, May 1862
71. AACWMI_190923_306.JPG: To Save the Union Road to Redemption
72. AACWMI_190923_311.JPG: Prepared to Fight
73. AACWMI_190923_314.JPG: Hiding in the Swamps
74. AACWMI_190923_317.JPG: Nicholas Biddle
75. AACWMI_190923_319.JPG: Road to Redemption The Planter was a Confederate gunboat commandeered in the early morning of May 12, 1862
76. AACWMI_190923_321.JPG: Robert Smalls
77. AACWMI_190923_323.JPG: South Carolina Infantry
78. AACWMI_190923_329.JPG: Toward Emancipation
79. AACWMI_190923_330.JPG: Copy of the Final Emancipation Proclamation Issued on January 1, 1863, the final Proclamation was greeted with great enthusiasm by America's African descent population. Not only did the President declare free slaves in states in rebellion, he also ordered is field commander to receive men of African descent into all armed services of the United States.
80. AACWMI_190923_333.JPG: Unidentified African Descent Soldier The first African descent regiment was officially mustered into Federal service on September 27, 1862, five days after the Preliminary Emancipation was issued.
81. AACWMI_190923_336.JPG: Tactics Manual for United States Colored Troops With thousands of African Americans enlisting in the army, the War Department published a tactics manual for United States Colored Troops.
82. AACWMI_190923_340.JPG: The New York Times, September 23, 1862 The New York Times reported on the "Highly Important" news of the President's Proclamation.
83. AACWMI_190923_348.JPG: Toward Emancipation
84. AACWMI_190923_353.JPG: For Liberty The Union and Emancipation
85. AACWMI_190923_359.JPG: Day of Jubilee
86. AACWMI_190923_365.JPG: A Bloody Victory
87. AACWMI_190923_367.JPG: For the Union and Liberty
88. AACWMI_190923_371.JPG: 1863 Taking up Arms "Assault of the Second [First] Louisiana (Colored) Regiment on the Confederate Works at Port Hudson, May 27th, 1883."
89. AACWMI_190923_373.JPG: 1865 Liberating the Enslaved "United States Colored Troops entering Richmond, April 3rd, 1865. Reception of the troops in Main Street."
90. AACWMI_190923_375.JPG: 1867 Securing Citizenship
91. AACWMI_190923_376.JPG: Raising the Training Regiments
92. AACWMI_190923_379.JPG: Louisiana Native Guards
93. AACWMI_190923_381.JPG: Our Colored Troops -- the Line Officers of the First Louisiana Native Guards.
94. AACWMI_190923_383.JPG: Our Colored Troops at Work -- The First Louisiana Native Guards Disembarking at Fort Macombe, Louisiana
95. AACWMI_190923_385.JPG: Kansas Colored Infantry
96. AACWMI_190923_388.JPG: The Union's Cry for Help Unquestionable Courage
97. AACWMI_190923_393.JPG: Raid of Second South Carolina Volunteers (Col. Montgomery) Among the Rice Plantations on the Combahee, S.C.
98. AACWMI_190923_396.JPG: Port Hudson
99. AACWMI_190923_398.JPG: Milliken's Bend
100. AACWMI_190923_405.JPG: A Soldier's Duties
101. AACWMI_190923_407.JPG: Cavalry
102. AACWMI_190923_409.JPG: Cavalry returning to General Butler's headquarters after a raid
103. AACWMI_190923_411.JPG: Private James Smith
104. AACWMI_190923_413.JPG: Infantry
105. AACWMI_190923_416.JPG: From Fugitive to Soldier Where Honor is Due
106. AACWMI_190923_427.JPG: Senator Henry Wilson Massachusetts
107. AACWMI_190923_430.JPG: 1867 Securing Citizenship "The first vote"
108. AACWMI_190923_432.JPG: Artillery
109. AACWMI_190923_435.JPG: Musicians
110. AACWMI_190923_439.JPG: Important Work
111. AACWMI_190923_441.JPG: Pioneers
112. AACWMI_190923_443.JPG: African descent soldier in Atlanta 1864
113. AACWMI_190923_446.JPG: Raids in North Carolina
114. AACWMI_190923_447.JPG: Captured Confederate Generals Edward Johnson and G.H. Steuart taken to the rear by US Colored Cavalry, May 12, 1864
115. AACWMI_190923_449.JPG: Unites States Colored Troops Powerful Allies
116. AACWMI_190923_453.JPG: No Quarters!
117. AACWMI_190923_454.JPG: General John A. Logan
118. AACWMI_190923_458.JPG: The Bureau of United States Colored Troops was established by General Order 143 on May 22, 1863
119. AACWMI_190923_459.JPG: Fort Wagner
120. AACWMI_190923_466.JPG: The Assault on Battery Wagner, July 18. 1863
121. AACWMI_190923_474.JPG: Women and the War Effort Military Contributions
122. AACWMI_190923_481.JPG: Susie King Taylor
123. AACWMI_190923_483.JPG: Spies for Light and Liberty
124. AACWMI_190923_486.JPG: In the Camps
125. AACWMI_190923_488.JPG: On the Home Front
126. AACWMI_190923_491.JPG: Under Sherman & Grant In Major Campaigns
127. AACWMI_190923_498.JPG: Equipment Issue
128. AACWMI_190923_502.JPG: The Petersburg and Richmond Campaign
129. AACWMI_190923_508.JPG: Capture of Fort Harrison on the Chaffin's Farm line of works, September 28, 1864
130. AACWMI_190923_510.JPG: Explosion of mine under the Confederate works at Petersburg, July 30, 1864
131. AACWMI_190923_513.JPG: Canal Digging at Dutch Gap
132. AACWMI_190923_516.JPG: Liberated at Last From Washington to Brownsville
133. AACWMI_190923_522.JPG: April 10, 1864 Liberation of Arkansas
134. AACWMI_190923_523.JPG: February 18, 1865 The Cradle of Secession Falls
135. AACWMI_190923_525.JPG: April 3, 1865 "You've come at last"
136. AACWMI_190923_527.JPG: April 9, 1865 Lee Surrenders
137. AACWMI_190923_530.JPG: April 8, 1865 March to Montgomery
138. AACWMI_190923_533.JPG: June 15, 1865 Liberation of Texas
139. AACWMI_190923_535.JPG: Serving at Sea A Proud Tradition
140. AACWMI_190923_554.JPG: Sailors at War
141. AACWMI_190923_556.JPG: The Confederate ship Tennessee was captured in the Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864
142. AACWMI_190923_558.JPG: The USS Kearsarge in battle against the USS Alabama off Cherbourg, France on June 18, 1864
143. AACWMI_190923_560.JPG: Sunken Confederate ships in the James River
144. AACWMI_190923_562.JPG: Savannah
145. AACWMI_190923_566.JPG: Model of the USS Monitor
146. AACWMI_190923_567.JPG: Model of the USS Monitor
147. AACWMI_190923_571.JPG: Naval Gunfire
148. AACWMI_190923_576.JPG: Naval Reconnaissance
149. AACWMI_190923_583.JPG: Mississippi River Reconnaissance for the Mississippi Squadron under Rear Admiral David Porter, Sheet 1
150. AACWMI_190923_588.JPG: Mississippi River Reconnaissance for the Mississippi Squadron under Rear Admiral David Porter, Sheet 2
151. AACWMI_190923_590.JPG: Defenders of the Constitution Men of Honor
152. AACWMI_190923_597.JPG: Legacy of Freedom Fighters Freedom For All
153. AACWMI_190923_601.JPG: Celebrating the 15th Amendment
154. AACWMI_190923_602.JPG: Scene in the House on the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, January 31, 1865
155. AACWMI_190923_605.JPG: President Andrew Jackson holds a leaking kettle, labeled "The Reconstructed South," towards a woman representing liberty and Columbia, carrying a baby representing the newly approved 14th Constitutional Amendment
156. AACWMI_190923_610.JPG: Legacy of Freedom Fighters Temporarily in the Halls of Government
157. AACWMI_190923_622.JPG: The Honorable Robert Smalls
158. AACWMI_190923_623.JPG: The Honorable Charles Edmund Nash
159. AACWMI_190923_625.JPG: The Honorable Robert Brown Elliot speaking on the floor of the House
160. AACWMI_190923_627.JPG: The Honorable Blanche K. Bruce
161. AACWMI_190923_629.JPG: The Honorable Pinckney Benton Steward Pinchback
162. AACWMI_190923_631.JPG: The Honorable John Mercer Langston
163. AACWMI_190923_633.JPG: Legislature of South Carolina
164. AACWMI_190923_635.JPG: Legislature of Mississippi
165. AACWMI_190923_639.JPG: Legacy of Freedom Fighters From Volunteers to Regulars
166. AACWMI_190923_644.JPG: The famous 10th Colored Cavalry -- that climbed San Juan -- Peace Jubilee, Philadelphia
167. AACWMI_190923_645.JPG: The 24th US Infantry at drill, Camp Walker, Philippine Islands
168. AACWMI_190923_646.JPG: US Ninth Cavalry -- famous Colored Regiment -- Draws Sabers!
169. AACWMI_190923_648.JPG: Soldiers of the 25th Infantry, some wearing buffalo coats, Ft. Keogh, Montana
170. AACWMI_190923_650.JPG: General Order 18 United States Colored Troops, like all Union troops, lowered their flags to half mast in mourning after the assassination of President Lincoln.
171. AACWMI_190923_653.JPG: Letter from Fort Blakely Union Engineer George P. Hunt wrote this letter dated April 16, 1865. Hunt wrote that the colored troops "showed no quarter during the first part of the fight. Those who drew down their arms begged for mercy, the colored troops thought Forrest and his command was there. The whole garrison was marched down to the landing guarded by Negro troops. Generals, Captains and all hands, they appeared to take it very hard, but there was no help for them."
172. AACWMI_190923_656.JPG: General Order 40 The same day the US Colored Troops stopped Lee's army at Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865), thousands participated in the Union's successful expedition against Fort Blakeley in Mobile Bay, Alabama.
173. AACWMI_190923_664.JPG: Legacy of Freedom Fighters Setbacks and Accomplishments
174. AACWMI_190923_676.JPG: African American soldiers marching northwest of Verdun, France, 1918
175. AACWMI_190923_677.JPG: Unidentified African American soldier during World War I
176. AACWMI_190923_679.JPG: Double V Campaign
177. AACWMI_190923_682.JPG: Tuskegee's Freemen
178. AACWMI_190923_687.JPG: Tuskegee Airmen in Italy
179. AACWMI_190923_698.JPG: Civil Rights
180. AACWMI_190923_700.JPG: Plessy v. Ferguson In the Plessy v. Ferguson Decision, the Supreme Court ruled "all citizens separate but absolutely equal," which allowed the legal segregation of the races.
181. AACWMI_190923_702.JPG: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the 1957 Civil Rights Act As result of the Civil Rights activities of the 1950s, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which created a Commission on Civil Rights.
182. AACWMI_190923_705.JPG: The Civil Rights Act created EEOC and outlawed employment discrimination
183. AACWMI_190923_709.JPG: The 1965 Voting Rights Act ordered federal registrars into former Rebel States to register Black voters.
184. AACWMI_190923_712.JPG: Freedom Riders
185. AACWMI_190923_716.JPG: Copy of Congressman John Lewis' speech at the March on Washington John Lewis was the president of SNCC when he delivered this speech at the March on Washington.
186. AACWMI_190923_721.JPG: Emmett Till, a fourteen year-old, was lynched in Mississippi in August 1855. More than 70,000 mourners in Chicago and Detroit viewed his mutilated body. The murder of Emmett Till inspired a new generation of civil rights workers. Two months later Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
187. AACWMI_190923_729.JPG: Button from the March on Washington
188. AACWMI_190923_733.JPG: Toward a More Perfect Union
189. AACWMI_190923_734.JPG: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1968 Civil Rights Act, which created the Fair Housing Commission.
190. AACWMI_190923_737.JPG: African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation
191. AACWMI_190923_738.JPG: Monument to honor the United States Colored Troops
192. AACWMI_190923_740.JPG: Dedication of the African American Civil War Memorial
193. AACWMI_190923_742.JPG: President Barack Obama
194. AACWMI_190923_744.JPG: African American College Enrollment African American Purchasing Power African American Voter Registration
195. AACWMI_190923_746.JPG: Legacy of Freedom Fighters Civil Rights Post World War II
196. AACWMI_190923_751.JPG: Freedom Riders
197. AACWMI_190923_754.JPG: For Equality Under the Law
198. AACWMI_190923_755.JPG: The March on Washington
199. AACWMI_190923_756.JPG: March from Selma to Montgomery
200. AACWMI_190923_758.JPG: Organization chart for Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commitee (SNCC), 1968 [Note names in the Central Coordinating Committee section -- Hubert "Rap" Brown, Stokely Carmichael, and Fanny Lou Hamer]
201. AACWMI_190923_764.JPG: John Lewis
202. AACWMI_190923_776.JPG: America, Land of the Brave, Home of the Free Where's the Jim Crow Section
203. AACWMI_190923_779.JPG: Plan for the new museum lay-out.
Wikipedia Description: African American Civil War Memorial Museum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The African American Civil War Memorial Museum consists of a memorial and a museum that commemorate the service of 209,145 African-American soldiers and about 7,000 white and 2,145 Hispanic soldiers, amounting to nearly 220,000, plus the approximate 20,000 unsegregated Navy sailors, who fought for the Union in the American Civil War, mostly among the 175 regiments of United States Colored Troops (USCT).

The Memorial is at the corner of Vermont Avenue, 10th Street, and U Street NW in Washington, D.C.. It holds a 9-foot bronze statue, The Spirit of Freedom, by Ed Hamilton of Louisville, Kentucky, commissioned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 1993 and completed in 1997. The memorial includes a walking area with curved panel short walls inscribed with the names of the men who served in the war.

The Museum is across the street from the Memorial, at 1925 Vermont Ave. NW. Plans are in place for it to move into the former Grimk� School, at 1923 Vermont Ave. NW. As of 2018 the Museum is housed in the former gymnasium of the school, which was converted into an office building in the 1980s.

Both are served by the U Street station on the Washington Metro, served by the Yellow and Green Lines.

History

The museum (2011)

The related African American Civil War Museum is located directly across from the memorial at 1925 Vermont Avenue. From July 16–18, 2011, it celebrated its grand opening in a new and permanent facility at this address, with a weekend of speakers and events devoted to racial reconciliation. It plans four years of activities to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the war and African-American contributions.

The museum opened in January 1999 in a building two blocks west of the memorial in the historic U Street Corridor, a neighborhood traditionally the heart of African-American entertainment and theater in Washington. The museum enables visitors, researchers, and descendants of the United States Colored Troops to better understand their stories. It displays photographs, newspaper articles, and replicas of period clothing, and uniforms and weaponry of the Civil War.

The African American Civil War Memorial Registry at the museum documents the family trees of more than 2,000 descendants of those men who served with the USCT. Other descendants may register. Visitors can easily search the database to find ancestors and relatives registered in the Descendants Registry.
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