🗺️Landmarks
Museums, historic sites, churches, HBCUs, parks, and cultural institutions tied to Black history.
Bays Mountain Park
Kingsport, TN park with a self-guided Underground Railroad heritage trail.
Historic site / Memorial · Kingsport, TN, USA
@blackwikiBeach Institute African-American Cultural Center
Savannah museum and arts center on the site of the first school for freed people in Savannah.
Museum · Savannah, GA, USA
@blackwikiBeale Street
Memphis blues-and-soul corridor that incubated B.B. King, W.C. Handy, Aretha Franklin, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
Historic site / Memorial · Memphis, TN, USA
@blackwikiBeltLine — Westside Trail
Westside Atlanta section of the BeltLine that runs through historically Black neighborhoods.
Park / Outdoors · Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiBirmingham A.G. Gaston Motel
Birmingham motel where MLK Jr. planned the 1963 campaign; bombed in May 1963.
Historic site / Memorial · Birmingham, AL, USA
@blackwikiBirmingham Civil Rights Institute
Museum across from Kelly Ingram Park and 16th Street Baptist Church, anchoring Birmingham's civil-rights district.
Museum · Birmingham, AL, USA
@blackwikiBlack Academy of Arts and Letters
Dallas Black performing-arts institution.
Theater / Performing arts · Dallas, TX, USA
@blackwikiBlack History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia
Richmond museum dedicated to Virginia Black history and culture.
Museum · Richmond, VA, USA
@blackwikiBlack Lives Matter Plaza
Two-block stretch of 16th Street NW painted with BLACK LIVES MATTER in 2020.
Historic site / Memorial · Washington, DC, USA
@blackwikiBlack Wall Street Memorial
Tulsa memorial park on the site of the 1921 Greenwood Massacre.
Historic site / Memorial · Tulsa, OK, USA
@blackwikiBOBSA Headquarters
Atlanta home of the Black Owned Beauty Supply Association — Sam Ennon's trade group.
Community center · Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiBoley Historic District
Oklahoma town founded 1903 — one of 50+ all-Black towns built across the Indian Territory.
Historic site / Memorial · Boley, OK, USA
@blackwikiBooker T. Washington High School (Atlanta)
Atlanta high school — MLK Jr.'s alma mater.
School · Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiBooker T. Washington Memorial — Tuskegee
Tuskegee monument depicting Washington lifting the veil of ignorance from a kneeling Black man.
Historic site / Memorial · Tuskegee, AL, USA
@blackwikiBooker T. Washington National Monument
Hardy, VA site of Washington's birthplace plantation.
Historic site / Memorial · Hardy, VA, USA
@blackwikiBrown Chapel AME Church
Selma church that served as headquarters for the 1965 Voting Rights Campaign and starting point for all three Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
Church / House of worship · Selma, AL, USA
@blackwikiBryant's Grocery (Ruins)
Mississippi store where 14-year-old Emmett Till was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant in 1955 — the encounter that led to his murder.
Historic site / Memorial · Money, MS, USA
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