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Black American West Museum and Heritage Center: Denver: Colorado: 1971 [40] Black Cowboy Museum Rosenberg: Texas: 2017 [41] Black History 101 Mobile Museum Detroit: Michigan: 1995 [42] Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia: Richmond: Virginia: 1981 [43] Blanchard House Museum: Punta Gorda: Florida: 2004 [44] Bontemps African ...
This action marked the beginning of the dissolution of the Confederate Government and the end of the war the following April. Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, Boston African American National Historic Site, Boston, MA. Boston African American National Historic Site – Boston, Massachusetts. Camilla-Zack Community Center District – Mayfield, Georgia.
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park covers about 35 acres (0.14 km 2) and includes several sites in Atlanta, Georgia related to the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Within the park is his boyhood home, and Ebenezer Baptist Church — the church where King was baptized and both he and his father, Martin ...
Here are 10 museums to visit during Black History Month 2023 to delve into African American history and civil rights, from Montgomery to Baltimore.
The APEX Museum ("African American Panoramic Experience") is a museum of history presented from the black perspective. It is located on Auburn Avenue in the Sweet Auburn historic district of Atlanta, Georgia. [1] The Apex Museum was founded in 1978 by Mr. Dan Moore. The mission of the African-American Panoramic Experience (APEX) Museum is to ...
The Herndon Home is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 587 University Place NW, in Atlanta, Georgia.An elegant Classical Revival mansion with Beaux Arts influences, it was the home of Alonzo Franklin Herndon (1858-1927), a rags-to-riches success story who was born into slavery, but went on to become Atlanta's first black millionaire as founder and head of the Atlanta ...
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD: Andrew Edwards: 2015 Douglass was from Marylander. Benjamin Banneker statue Benjamin Banneker: National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. 2016
Website. civilandhumanrights.org. The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is a museum dedicated to the achievements of the civil rights movement in the United States and the broader worldwide human rights movement. Located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, the museum opened to the public on June 23, 2014.