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Brown 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.
Selma, AL, USA
Beach Institute African-American Cultural Center
Savannah museum and arts center on the site of the first school for freed people in Savannah.
Savannah, GA, USA
Penn Center
St. Helena Island, SC institution that grew from a Reconstruction-era school for freed people into a civil-rights training campus.
Saint Helena Island, SC, USA
American Civil War Museum (Tredegar)
Richmond museum on the Civil War with major Black history coverage.
Richmond, VA, USA
Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site
Richmond, VA home of Maggie Walker — first Black woman to charter a bank in the US.
Richmond, VA, USA
Jackson Ward
Richmond's historic Black business district known as the Birthplace of Black Capitalism and home to Maggie L. Walker's bank.
Richmond, VA, USA
Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia
Richmond museum dedicated to Virginia Black history and culture.
Richmond, VA, USA
Mother Bethel AME Church
Philadelphia's 1794 founding-mother church of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination.
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Oakland Museum of California — Black History Galleries
OMCA's permanent galleries documenting Black California history.
Oakland, CA, USA
Studio Museum in Harlem
Harlem contemporary art museum dedicated to artists of African descent.
New York, NY, USA
African Burial Ground National Monument
Lower Manhattan site where 419 colonial-era enslaved and free Africans were rediscovered during 1991 construction.
New York, NY, USA
Apollo Theater
Harlem stage that launched Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, James Brown, and the Jackson 5 — borderline Southern through its founders' roots.
New York, NY, USA
Apollo Theater Walk of Fame
Outdoor plaque series honoring Black artists who performed at the Apollo.
New York, NY, USA
Harlem Hellfighters Memorial
Memorial to the 369th Infantry Regiment — Black WWI soldiers known as the Harlem Hellfighters.
New York, NY, USA
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
NYPL research division dedicated to Black history and culture.
New York, NY, USA
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Natchitoches, LA national park preserving Cane River Creole plantation life.
Natchitoches, LA, USA
Jubilee Hall — Fisk University
Nashville Romanesque Revival building built with proceeds from the Fisk Jubilee Singers' international tours.
Nashville, TN, USA
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
Montgomery church where MLK Jr. pastored 1954–1960.
Montgomery, AL, USA
National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Montgomery memorial to the more than 4,400 Black Americans lynched in the US between 1877 and 1950.
Montgomery, AL, USA
Civil Rights Memorial Center
Montgomery memorial designed by Maya Lin honoring 40 martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement.
Montgomery, AL, USA
Bryant'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.
Money, MS, USA
Hank Aaron Stadium
Mobile, AL stadium named for hometown legend Hank Aaron.
Mobile, AL, USA
Florida Memorial University
Miami HBCU, founded 1879; one of the oldest in the Southeast.
Miami Gardens, FL, USA
Lyric Theater (Overtown)
Miami's historic Black theater in the Overtown neighborhood.
Miami, FL, USA