@blackwiki
@blackwiki · 868 pts
Adding more features :)Jun 3, 2:24 PM
Landmarks · 134
Stone of Hope (MLK Memorial)
DC memorial to Dr. King on the Tidal Basin, dedicated in 2011.
Washington, DC, USA
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
DC museum that opened in 2016 — the only national museum devoted to African American life, art, and history.
Washington, DC, USA
African American Civil War Memorial
DC monument and museum dedicated to the 209,145 USCT soldiers who fought for the Union.
Washington, DC, USA
Lincoln Theatre (U Street)
DC's historic U Street venue, opened 1922; once the centerpiece of Black Broadway.
Washington, DC, USA
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Anacostia, DC home of Frederick Douglass — his final residence, called Cedar Hill.
Washington, DC, USA
Howard Theatre
DC's first Black-owned theatre (1910); cornerstone of the U Street Corridor.
Washington, DC, USA
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House
DC home of Mary McLeod Bethune and former headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.
Washington, DC, USA
True Reformer Building
U Street building designed by Black architect John Lankford in 1903 — the first major building in DC fully financed, designed, and built by African Americans.
Washington, DC, USA
Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site
Logan Circle home of historian Carter G. Woodson — birthplace of Black History Month.
Washington, DC, USA
Tuskegee University Historic Campus
1881 college founded by Booker T. Washington; later home to the Tuskegee Airmen training program and the Carver agricultural research labs.
Tuskegee, AL, USA
Booker T. Washington Memorial — Tuskegee
Tuskegee monument depicting Washington lifting the veil of ignorance from a kneeling Black man.
Tuskegee, AL, USA
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site (Moton Field)
Tuskegee, AL airfield where the Tuskegee Airmen trained during World War II.
Tuskegee, AL, USA
Black Wall Street Memorial
Tulsa memorial park on the site of the 1921 Greenwood Massacre.
Tulsa, OK, USA
Greenwood District (Black Wall Street)
Tulsa neighborhood that was the country's most prosperous Black business district before the 1921 massacre destroyed it.
Tulsa, OK, USA
Tougaloo College
Tougaloo, MS HBCU founded 1869; a Freedom Movement staging ground in the 1960s.
Tougaloo, MS, USA
Perry Harvey Sr. Park
Tampa park named for the longtime Black longshoreman labor organizer, with public art tracing the city's Black history.
Tampa, FL, USA
Tampa Bay History Center — African American Gallery
Permanent African American history exhibits in the downtown Tampa history museum.
Tampa, FL, USA
St. Paul AME Church (Tampa)
Historic Tampa African Methodist Episcopal church and civil-rights organizing site.
Tampa, FL, USA
Florida A&M University Marching 100 Hall
Tallahassee home of FAMU's legendary Marching 100 band.
Tallahassee, FL, USA
The Woodson African American Museum of Florida
St. Petersburg museum named for historian Carter G. Woodson dedicated to Florida Black history.
St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Griot Museum of Black History
St. Louis Black-history museum featuring wax figures and historical exhibits.
St. Louis, MO, USA
Scott Joplin House State Historic Site
St. Louis home of the King of Ragtime composer Scott Joplin.
St. Louis, MO, USA
Old Courthouse (Dred Scott Trial Site)
St. Louis courthouse where Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom in 1846.
St. Louis, MO, USA
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma bridge where state troopers beat John Lewis and 600 marchers on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965.
Selma, AL, USA