Angola Prison Watchtower and Segregated Rail Car at Smithsonian

“While still under construction, in 2013 crews installed two large pieces at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Weighing 80 tons, a segregated railway train care made by the Pullman Company in 1922 was delivered to DC in November 2013 as well as a prison guard tower from Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary. It’s an item illustrating the incarceration of black people in the 20th century.”

the 44-seat Southern Railway car, which required its black passengers traveling into the pre-civil rights South to contort physically and psychically in order to conform to the smallness of their second-class citizenship.  I wish the museum had used the pre-restoration train car.