For her first visit to the state, the first Black woman to sit on the nation's highest court wanted to absorb as much of the state's history--the good and the bad--as possible, without fanfare and mostly out of the public eye.
SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to sit on the nation's highest court, joined Jefferson County judges at the Birmingham Museum of Art during a whirlwind six days in Alabama while visiting to speak at the commemoration of the 60th year since the tragic KKK bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.In and out. That’s how Doug Jones, Alabama’s former U.S. Senator, thought it would go. How U.S.
“I just assumed she would likely come in on Thursday and then leave Friday afternoon,” Jones shared recently. “But to my delight, she wanted to spend some time in Alabama. She had never been to the state.”, were here, turns out, for seven days. They visited sights and dined with friends, officials, professionals, and students in Birmingham, Tuskegee, and Montgomery. Yet there was a catch.
Now, with the Justice’s permission , Jones and others shared insights on her Alabama itinerary:That smile. That big smile. That familiar big smile. That’s what Dejuana Thompson noticed first as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court walked through the doors of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on that Wednesday morning. On September 13th, just last month.
Yet, as Thompson held out her hand to welcome Brown Jackson, she appreciated the rare air of a sitting SCOTUS walking through the Institute’s doors.Barry McNealy, a long-time education and the Institute’s historical context expert usually by members of the medical profession. In acknowledgment of the six decades since the church bombing, Jones, a lawyer, was invited to share memories of bringing the racist perpetrators to justice.
“I know first-hand that women in the legal field still face many obstacles,” she later shared. “There are many glass ceilings yet to be broken in the Alabama judicial system. There has never been a woman of color elected to serve on any of our Appellate Courts … on the federal bench in Alabama as an Article III U.S. District Court Judge.”
“She’s obviously been the object of a lot of attention and has been since her nomination” Zoghby later told mycolleague Cody Short. “But she was very flattered that someone would do this on their own in conjunction with a series of prominent women in this country.”Prior to the start of the commemoration and memorial at 16th Street Baptist Church, Brown Jackson spent time downstairs at the site with family members of the bombing victims and people who prosecuted the KKK perpetrators.
The surgeon used no anesthesia because he believed—as was pervasive in medicine in the 19th century, and still lingers today—Blacks were more pain-tolerant than whites.
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