National Museum of African American History and Culture · Concourse level 2
2Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation
Reconstruction to nineteen sixty eight: the segregated railway car, the Tuskegee airplane, the Emmett Till memorial and the lunch counter of the sit ins.
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The Emmett Till Memorial
Casket from 1955; memorial installed 2016
Concourse level 2, Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation
Southern Railway Car Number 1200
Pullman Company, 1923, converted to a segregated car in 1940
Concourse level 2, Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation
The Spirit of Tuskegee, a Stearman Training Airplane
Boeing Stearman, 1944
Concourse level 2, Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation