I arrived in Montgomery exhausted. I had seen so much at such an emotional pitch from Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel to Emmett Till’s unpublished image as well as Civil War photographs and repeated Civil Rights images. I was a wreck. But I had promised myself that Montgomery would be the terminus of my […]
Category: Culture
Blues, Capitalism, and Technology
B.B. King lit out for Memphis after a runaway tractor tore off its exhaust pipe while being put in the shed. The museum devotes floor space to an exhibit on the tractor, including photographs of the plantation owner, Johnson Barrett. The exhibit, like most contemporary museums, nudges you to walk along the section. Terminating the […]
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