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Allensworth Historic State Park
California park preserving the all-Black town founded 1908 by Lt. Col. Allen Allensworth.
Earlimart, CA, USA
Stagville State Historic Site
One of the largest plantation sites in the antebellum South; now a state-run education center.
Durham, NC, USA
NC Mutual Life Insurance Building
Durham, NC historic insurance-company headquarters — once the largest Black-owned company in the world.
Durham, NC, USA
Hayti / Black Wall Street Durham
Durham's historic Black district anchored by NC Mutual Life — once the largest Black-owned business in the world.
Durham, NC, USA
George Washington Carver National Monument
Diamond, MO national monument at the site of Carver's birthplace.
Diamond, MO, USA
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Detroit museum; one of the largest African-American-focused museums in the world by exhibition space.
Detroit, MI, USA
Freedman's Memorial Cemetery
Historic Black cemetery in Uptown Dallas — final resting place of formerly enslaved people and their descendants.
Dallas, TX, USA
South Dallas Cultural Center
City of Dallas Black arts and culture center on Cullum Boulevard.
Dallas, TX, USA
African American Museum of Dallas
Permanent African American history museum in Fair Park.
Dallas, TX, USA
Pullman Porter Museum
Chicago museum dedicated to the Black labor history of the Pullman sleeping-car company.
Chicago, IL, USA
DuSable Black History Museum
Chicago museum on the South Side; the oldest independent African American history museum in the US.
Chicago, IL, USA
Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ
Chicago church where Mamie Till-Mobley held the open-casket funeral for her son Emmett Till in 1955.
Chicago, IL, USA
Old Slave Mart Museum (Charleston)
Museum in a former slave auction warehouse on Chalmers Street.
Charleston, SC, USA
Mother Emanuel AME Church
Charleston AME church — site of the 2015 racist mass shooting.
Charleston, SC, USA
Old Slave Mart Museum
Charleston museum housed in a former slave auction warehouse.
Charleston, SC, USA
Avery Research Center
Charleston archive and museum at the College of Charleston dedicated to Lowcountry Black history.
Charleston, SC, USA
International African American Museum
Charleston museum opened in 2023 on the site of Gadsden's Wharf, where nearly half of all enslaved Africans entered the United States.
Charleston, SC, USA
Weeksville Heritage Center
Brooklyn historic site preserving a free Black community founded in 1838.
Brooklyn, NY, USA
African Meeting House
Boston's 1806 African Meeting House — the oldest extant Black church building in the US.
Boston, MA, USA
Phillis Wheatley House (Boston)
Massachusetts site honoring Phillis Wheatley, the first published Black female poet in the American colonies.
Boston, MA, USA
16th Street Baptist Church
Civil-rights movement church bombed by Klansmen on Sept 15, 1963, killing four girls and galvanizing federal action.
Birmingham, AL, USA
Birmingham A.G. Gaston Motel
Birmingham motel where MLK Jr. planned the 1963 campaign; bombed in May 1963.
Birmingham, AL, USA
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Museum across from Kelly Ingram Park and 16th Street Baptist Church, anchoring Birmingham's civil-rights district.
Birmingham, AL, USA
L.B. Brown House Museum (Bartow)
Bartow museum dedicated to L.B. Brown, freed Black carpenter who built the home in 1892 and over 100 others.
Bartow, FL, USA