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Features important African American and black Maryland figures National Museum of Dentistry: Downtown Baltimore: Medical: Dental history, oral health and dentistry professionals National Slavic Museum: Fell's Point: Ethnic - Slavic: Polish and Slavic history museum Peale Museum: Downtown Baltimore: Community & culture: Phoenix Shot Tower ...
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 ...
The 82,000 square foot museum is located two blocks from Baltimore's Inner Harbor at 830 E. Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Opened in 2005, [1] the museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, and was named after Reginald F. Lewis, the first African American to build a billion-dollar company, TLC Beatrice International Holdings ...
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is a wax museum in Baltimore, Maryland featuring prominent African-American and other black historical figures. It was established in 1983, in a downtown storefront on Saratoga Street. [ 1 ]
The Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), formerly the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS), [6] founded on March 1, 1844, [1] is the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. state of Maryland. The organization "collects, preserves, and interprets objects and materials reflecting Maryland's diverse heritage".
The history of African Americans in Baltimore dates back to the 17th century when the first African slaves were being brought to the Province of Maryland.Majority white for most of its history, Baltimore transitioned to having a black majority in the 1970s. [2]
Devin Allen is an American photographer, photojournalist, and activist based in Baltimore, Maryland.He gained national attention after the Freddie Gray protests in 2015, when his documentary photograph entitled "Baltimore Uprising" was published as Time magazine's May 2015 cover photo. [1]
National Archives for Black Women's History (formerly the National Council of Negro Women's National Library, Archives, and Museum) is an archive located at 3300 Hubbard Rd, Landover, Maryland. It is dedicated to cataloguing, restoring and preserving the documents and photographs of African-American women.