Mark Auslander (Anthropology/Cultural Production, Brandeis University) discuses the recent re-installation of the Greensboro lunch counter (site of an important civil rights sit-in in 1960) at the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. What is gained and lost through the repositioning of this important historical object of memory?
***
Woolworth Lunch Counter
A History Lost and Found video clip on the Woolworth Lunch Counter which was one of the focal points of the Civil Rights movement.
No comments:
Post a Comment