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The museum was intended to have as its primary mission education, re-education, and policy formation regarding slavery in America and its enduring legacy. Former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder is the museum project's founder. The project, effectively, died in 2008 due to its inability to raise sufficient funds to pay property taxes, let alone ...
The concept of a national museum dedicated to African-American history and culture can be traced back to the second decade of the 20th century. In 1915, African-American veterans of the Union Army met at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., [6] for a reunion and parade.
An example of an African American museum: The Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American History Museum. Woodson was the founder of Black History Month, and a noted educator. This is a list of museums in the United States whose primary focus is on African American culture and history. Such museums are commonly known as African American museums ...
International Slavery Museum, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool [13] Wilberforce House, part of the Museums Quarter of Kingston-upon-Hull [14] The Wake by Khaleb Brooks in London [15] (planned) The gravestone of 'Scipio Africanus' in Bristol [16] [17] Plaques for people compensated after the abolition of slavery in Bristol [18]
The museum site is a 56-acre (230,000 m 2) area containing the main houses that was donated by the family to the city of Washington in 1977. Additional buildings were moved to the site to represent typical plantation buildings. The museum is operated by the city of Washington, Georgia.
Experience Music Project. This list of museums in Washington state encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Decatur House is a historic house museum at 748 Jackson Place in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. It is named after its first owner and occupant, the naval officer Stephen Decatur Jr. [2] Built in 1818, the house is located at the northwest corner of Lafayette Square, about a block from the White House.
The Booker T. Washington National Monument is a National Monument near the community of Hardy, Virginia, and is located entirely in rural Franklin County, Virginia. [4] It preserves portions of the 207-acre (0.90 km 2) tobacco farm on which educator and leader Booker T. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856.