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The Griot Museum of Black History is a wax museum in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1997. Originally named The Black World History Wax Museum, the organization changed its name to The Griot Museum of Black History (“The Griot”) in 2009. In some west African countries, the griot, is a historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician.
The history of St. Louis began with the settlement of the area by Native American mound builders who lived as part of the Mississippian culture from the 9th century to the 15th century, followed by other migrating tribal groups. Starting in the late 17th century, French explorers arrived. Spain took over in 1763 and a trading company led by ...
Area code (s) 314. Website. stlouis-mo.gov. The Ville is a historic African-American neighborhood with many African-American businesses located in North St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.. This neighborhood is a forty-two-square-block bounded by St. Louis Avenue on the north, Martin Luther King Drive on the south, Sarah on the east and Taylor on the ...
Sumner was the only Black public high school in St. Louis City until the opening of Vashon High School in 1927. [9] Famous instructors included Herman Dreer, [10] Edward Bouchet [11] and Charles H. Turner. Other later Black high schools in St. Louis County were Douglass High School (opened in 1925) and Kinloch High School (1936). [12]
Contents: Counties in Missouri with African American Historic Places. Boone - Cooper - Franklin - Jackson - Lewis - Marion - Newton - St. Louis - Saline. Some of these sites are on the National Register of Historic Places (NR) as independent sites or as part of larger historic district. Several of the sites are National Historic Landmarks (NRL).
2601 N. Whittier Street. Homer G. Phillips Hospital was the only public hospital for African Americans in St. Louis, Missouri from 1937 until 1955, when the city began to desegregate. It continued to operate after the desegregation of city hospitals, and continued to serve the Black community of St. Louis until its closure in 1979.
St. Louis Stars (baseball) (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "African-American history in St. Louis" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
The East St. Louis massacre was a series of violent attacks between African Americans and white Americans in East St. Louis, Illinois, between late May and early July of 1917. These attacks also displaced 6,000 African Americans and led to the destruction of approximately $400,000 ($9.51 million in 2023) worth of property. [ 1 ]