A rendering for “The Mothers of Gynecology” sculpture, which will honor enslaved women subjected to Dr. J. Marion Sims’ gynecological experiments in the mid-1800s. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Michelle Browder passed through Los Angeles this past week-end. She was picking up the sculpture’s steel armature from a fabricator in Las Vegas, then heading to San Francisco, where she will build out the work. The free event was this past Saturday morning. It is free at North Venice Little League parking lot and inviting all Angelinos to meet her and bring metal objects: brass candlesticks, copper pots and more: spare bicycle parts. They...

With the disenfranchisement of blacks at the turn of the 20th century after the Reconstruction era, Alabama Democrats suppressed populist challenges and the state became part of the “Solid South.” This constitution was not initially supported by the majority of Whites, but Democrats used the call of white supremacy to gain passage.[1] In addition to wanting to affirm white supremacy, the planter and business elite were concerned about voting by lower-class and uneducated Whites. Historian J. Morgan Kousser found, “They disfranchised these Whites as willingly as they deprived Blacks of the vote. Mrs. Marjorie Nixon Smith agreed to tell me “her story.” Her...