Learning lessons from history
The advent of Black Harlem was no accident, as one exhibit in Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, now on display at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, explain. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) A new exhibit at DHHRM illustrates how SCOTUS can grant rights and take them away DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com A new exhibit at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum reminds us that before some of the really terrible recent Supreme Court decisions, there was a series of awful decisions through the second half of the 19th century.
And if history repeats itself, yes, our rights can be taken away. Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow explores how Black Americans advocated for civil rights from the 1857 Dred Scott decision through the dawn of the 20th century.
The new exhibit, created by the New York Historical Society, stands as a great companion to Rise Up, this spring’s history of the LGBTQ rights movement dating from Stonewall.
While that exhibit extolled the great strides we made in the Supreme Court over the past 20 years, the current exhibit explains how the court can just as easily trample our rights.
