00:00Welcome back to Access Carolina. History comes to life in a powerful new exhibit at the Upcountry History Museum.
00:07Access Carolina's Logan Hoffman is taking us inside, sitting for justice. Take us around, Logan.
00:15Yeah, so this exhibit just opened on Valentine's Day on February 14th, and they have some really interesting pieces here
00:22to show.
00:23So we have Martha, she's going to take us through these coats that are behind us. Tell us about the
00:27artist who created these.
00:28So the artist is named Patricia Montgomery, and she is out in Oakland, California.
00:33But she has made a career out of making kind of story quilts, quilts that tell some kind of narrative.
00:38And here she has put these stories on these coats and focused on civil rights, women who are important in
00:46the civil rights movement.
00:47So we're going to show you guys a couple of these coats. There's three here in this group. What is
00:51the significance behind these?
00:53So these three are represent, tell the stories of three women who were kind of undersung in the civil rights
00:59movements.
00:59There's Dahlry Map, who was instrumental in a civil, sorry, Supreme Court case about the Fourth Amendment, unreasonable search and
01:09seizure.
01:10And there's Septima Clark. And then there's also Carlotta Walls, who was at Central High School.
01:17And then when you walk inside the exhibit, there is this outside area.
01:22But then we're going to come inside here, too.
01:24They have a couple of things on the walls, but they also have two other coats here.
01:29And these also have played a big significance, too.
01:32That's right. These two women, Claudette Colvin and Joanne Robinson, were actually instrumental with the Montgomery bus boycott.
01:40Claudette Colvin actually was arrested before Rosa Parks, several months before.
01:44She was 15 years old, and she had the same situation, sitting in the wrong seat on a bus.
01:51And she predated Rosa Parks by eight months.
01:54And then Joanne Robinson played a large part in publicizing and getting the community to participate in the bus boycott,
02:00which is why they're separating here.
02:02Martha, thank you.
02:03The interesting part about this, too, is that there's a lot of different illustrations on the walls.
02:09So we have Abby here.
02:10She's going to tell us about these artists, because there's two people who played a big role in these.
02:14Yes. So these are all done by two artists from New York, Harvey Dinerstein and also Burton Silverman as well.
02:22So we're going to show you this piece here.
02:24You were calling out before and saying this is a piece that people must see when they arrive here.
02:29Yes. So this is of Martin Luther King Jr., one that we still learn about in school today,
02:34as well as just a leader of the civil rights movement.
02:37It's titled Are You Tired?, which, as we know, he's a great speaker and orator and things like that.
02:44So I think this is one that most people are drawn to because they're very familiar with him.
02:48What I love about these exhibits, too, is that as you walk along this area, they all really tell a
02:54story.
02:55So there's another one here that we really do want to highlight, too.
02:58So, yes, so this one is titled Lawyers Around the Table.
03:02So this is just showing the community not only of lawyers.
03:05You can kind of see some some shadows in the back focusing on people who were there present at the
03:11trial.
03:12So this just really focuses on the emotion and the hard work that the lawyers put in for this.
03:18Abby, thank you so much.
03:19And again, this opened February 14th.
03:21It is a traveling exhibit from a museum out of Delaware, and they will be here until June.
03:27So you can come on down and check it out until then.
03:29And for now, we're going to be coming up and teasing and introducing you to an America's 250-year museum
03:35exhibit
03:36that's going to be here in just a couple of weeks.
03:38All right.
03:38Looking forward to seeing more, Logan.
