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The International African American Museum (IAAM) is a museum of African-American history in Charleston, South Carolina, located at a former shipping wharf where approximately 40% of the nation's enslaved persons disembarked. The museum opened June 27, 2023, [3] after 20 years of planning. [4]
Visitors look through exhibits at the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C. Tuesday, Jan 23, 2024. Dr. Matthews: In the museum we have a digital touch table.
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International African American Museum: Charleston: South Carolina: 2023 [82] [83] International Civil Rights Center and Museum: Greensboro: North Carolina: 2010 [84] Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum: Austin: Texas: 2004 [85] Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia: Big Rapids: Michigan: 1996 [86] John Johnson House: Philadelphia: Pennsylvania ...
Overlooking the old wharf in Charleston at which nearly half of the enslaved population first entered North America, the 150,000-square-foot (14,000-square-meter) museum houses exhibits and ...
Tonya Matthews is an American biomedical engineer and administrator who serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. She previously served as the CEO and President of Michigan Science Center , where in 2016, she helped launch the STEMinista Project to engage ...
Later the same year, on February 17, 1806, the city of Charleston passed an ordinance that all vessels carrying enslaved peoples had to land at Gadsden’s Wharf. [ 6 ] On January 1, 1808, a congressional ban on slave imports took effect and Gadsden’s Wharf was put to other uses, though enslavers continued to trade in human beings until the ...
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