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Visit a national park that honors the history of Jazz perfomer in New Orleans African Americans like the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta, Georgia, or the Black Heritage Trail at Boston African American National Historic Site, or take a jazz history walking tour at New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park.
National African American History Month 2009
Meet some of the people and visit some of the places that have shaped our nation
Lesson plans and other resources
Lesson plans and teacher guides at Booker T. Washington National Monument. See more teacher's resources...		 image of a slavery story board Inside Story
Life in the Land of Lincoln: Summer interns discover history firsthand in a national park.
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A reenactor portraying York with images of Lewis and Clark People
Lewis and Clark's expedition included a man named York who was enslaved to William Clark. York 's story is not well known, but expedition journals, Clark's letters, and other accounts provide a sketch of the man and his importance to the Corps of Discovery. See more people...
folk art related to Manhattan's African Burial Ground Places
Lost to history, a burial ground for free and enslaved Africans was discovered in Lower Manhattan in 1991 as a consequence of the planned construction of a federal office building. This sacred place is now preserved as a national park. See more places...
Historic photo of an African American family Stories
In Those Days preserves the recollections - from slavery through modern times - of elderly African Americans in rural Elbert County, Georgia, and Abbeville County, South Carolina, areas dramatically changed by the construction of the Richard B. Russell Dam in the 1980s. See more stories...
Image of Frederick Douglass with American Visionaries title Collections
Music box. Remington typewriter. Checkerboard. Bible. These and other possessions of Frederick Douglass offer unique insights into the man called the father of the civil rights movement, whose determination, brilliance, and eloquence shaped the nation.See more collections...
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National historic landmark theme studies series, including:
  • Civil Rights in America : Racial Desegregation of Public Accommodations
  • African American National Historic Landmarks Assessment Study
  • African Reflections on the American Landscape
  • Heritage Matters: News of the Nation's Diverse Cultural Heritage
  • CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship
  • Common Ground: Preserving Our Nation's Heritage
  • Heritage News

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  • Historic Places and Diversity Deficit in Heritage Conservation
  • Buffalo Soldiers Mapping Project
  • Honoring Harriet Tubman: Creating a new national park?
  • Excavation of an Early Dugout Homestead at Nicodemus, Kansas
  • Low Country Gullah Geechee Culture
  • Times of Challenge: Photographs Recall Landmark Era in the African American Story
  • More Preservation

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    abandoned WROX building in Clarksdale, Mississsippi
    With "The Soul Man" and other deejay pioneers behind the mic, WROX, was one of the earliest and most listened to R&B stations. Ike and Tina Turner, Elvis, and other stars were all guests on the show broadcast from the second floor of this historic building in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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