Located at 4386 Highway 494 in Bermuda, Louisiana, the Oakland Plantation, Creole National Historical Park is only one of two National Bicentennial Farms located west of the Mississippi River. It and the Magnolia Plantation, both of the Natch...
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Founded by John O’Neal, Gilbert Moses, and Doris Derby at Tougaloo College in Madison County, Mississippi in 1963, the Free Southern Theater (FST) was a cultural, performing arts and educational extension of the Civil Rights and Black Arts Moveme...
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The largest museum in New England that is, according to its website, “dedicated to preserving, conserving and interpreting the contributions of African Americans”, the Museum of African American History (MAAH) has several sites in Massachus...
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Opening in 1999, the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum is presently located at 1925 Vermont Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. Its purpose is preservation and presentation of the accounts and contributions of those 209,145 members of ...
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Located at 191 Beale Street, the Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum actually began as a research project of the Smithsonian Institution. Situated within the FedExForum sports and entertainment complex, the purpose of this museum, according to its w...
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Located at 2805 E. 10th Street on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) serves as a repository of Black music and its accompanying cultural material, post-World War II.
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Located on the first floor at 48 Wheeler Avenue in Pleasantville, New York, the Gordon Parks Foundation is an incredible institution that preserves the legacy and promotes the vision of this African-American Renaissance man. The mission ...
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The Frankie Manning Foundation was founded to honor the work, life and legacy of Frankie Manning (1914-2009). A dancer, choreographer and innovator, he perhaps was the best known representative of the Lindy Hop, a highly energetic dance! ...
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Created by married couple, Monique Greenwood and Glenn Pogue, there are six residences that comprise Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast Inns. These upscale inns are Akwaaba Mansion of the Bedford-Stuyvesant area in the Brooklyn borough of New York C...
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Presently, the only museum in the United States dedicated to honoring the rich legacy of Blacks in fire safety, the African American Firefighter Museum (AAFM) is located at 1401 South Central Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Housed in Fire ...
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