The following is a dynamic and expanding list of African-American historic places in the United States and territories which have been documented to be of significance to illustrating the experience of the African diaspora in America. Some are local landmarks while others are on the National Register of Historic Places. The stories of the contributions, hardships, and aspirations of all American people can be seen in the experiences of African Americans at these physical locations.National Register of Historic Places: African American Historic Places; National Park Service & National Trust for Historic Preservation; The Preservation Press; Washington D.C.; 1994 The formal preservation of these sites dates back to at least 1917 according to architectural historian Brent Leggs when efforts to save the Gothic Revival home of abolitionist and statesman

Frederic Douglass Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a ...

were launched. “Even when it wasn’t called ‘preservation,’ this work was already happening.” The places listed below represent the achievements and struggles of African Americans. Visitors to these sites can gain a better understanding of the events and the people of that time. These places connected across time to create an understanding of what happened and why.

African-American historic places organized by period or topic

This outline has been adapted from other related Wikipedia articles and ''The Negro Pilgrimage in America'' by C. Eric Lincoln and ''Before the Mayflower; A History of the Negro in America; 1619-1964'' by

Lerone Bennett Jr Lerone is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Lerone Bennett Jr. (1928–2019), African-American scholar, author, and social historian * Lerone Clarke (born 1981), Jamaican track runner * Lerone Murphy Lerone Murphy (born July ...

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Origins The Negro Pilgrimage in America: C. Eric Lincoln; Bantam Books, New York; 1967 ''The Negro Pilgrimage in America'' or the ''African Past''Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in American 1619-1964; Lerone Bennett, Jr.; Pelican Books; Baltimore, Maryland; 1964 The story of the African Americans begins in Africa. Early histories of Africa considered it the ‘Dark Continent’, both in the sense of the color of its people, but also for its lack of known civilizations. Studies beginning in the 1960s have found a rich history of civilization, including arts, architecture, public thought and major civilizations. The story of African Americans builds from these roots and can be traced through historic sites associated with the slave trade in America: * Charlotte Amalie Historic District – Virgin Islands * Fairvue - Kentucky * The Grange *

Kingsley Plantation Kingsley Plantation (also known as the Zephaniah Kingsley Plantation Home and Buildings) is the site of a former estate in Jacksonville, Florida, that was named for its developer and most famous owner, Zephaniah Kingsley, who spent 25 years there. ...

Old Slave Mart The Old Slave Mart is a building located at 6 Chalmers Street in Charleston, South Carolina that once housed an antebellum period slave auction gallery. Constructed in 1859, the building is believed to be the last extant slave auction facility in ...

– South Carolina
American Revolution While the term ‘American Revolution’ connotes only the war period (1776–1783), the entire colonial experience is included. Free Negros were present during early campaigns of the war and throughout the war. In March 1770,

Crispus Attucks Crispus Attucks ( – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent, commonly regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the Amer ...

died during the protest that has become known as the

Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing t ...

. At the

Battle of Bunker Hill The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in ...

Peter Salem Peter Salem (October 1, 1750 – August 16, 1816)BlackPast.org
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and Salem Poor, two free Negros valiantly served. Salem Poor was commended for his actions that day. * Burns United Methodist Church * Christiansted National Historic Site * Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza –

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and unincorporated ...

Hawikuh Hawikuh (also spelled ''Hawikku'', meaning "gum leaves" in ZuniLanmon, Dwight P. and Harlow, Francis, "A brief history of the Ashiwi (Zuni) pueblos", in ''The Pottery of Zuni Pueblo'', 2008, Museum of New Mexico Press. ), was one of the largest of ...

Jack Peterson Memorial John Jacob “Rifle Jack” Peterson was a Revolutionary war era patriot of African and Kitchewan descent whose quick thinking helped repel British forces in Croton, New York. His actions threw Benedict Arnold’s treasonous plans into disarray ...

, Croton-on-Hudson, New York
Slavery For over 200 years, the American system of slavery held four million people of color in bondage. The effect was felt by all the people of the nation, including black, white, yellow, and red. It was premised on a system of racial supremacy that affected the development of the American Negro and the relationships of all American’s with persons of other races.
The first blacks in the new world did not arrive on the slave ship to Jamestown in 1619. Rather, it was Pedro Alonzo Niño, navigator on the Niña the smallest of

Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus * lij, Cristoffa C(or)ombo * es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón * pt, Cristóvão Colombo * ca, Cristòfor (or ) * la, Christophorus Columbus. (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was a ...

's vessels. From that day, Negros participated in nearly every major Spanish exploration in the new world. Neflo de Olaña and thirty other Negros were with Balboa when they discovered the Pacific Ocean. Antioch_Missionary_Baptist_Church_Downtown_Houston_(HDR)

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Antioch Missionary Baptist Church Antioch Missionary Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 313 Robin Street in Downtown Houston, Texas. It was historically a part of the Fourth Ward.Davis, Rod.Houston's really good idea Bus tour celebrates communities that forged a c ...

– Richard Allen (organized the AME church) *

Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite The Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite is the location where, around the 1780s, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable located his home and trading post. This home is generally considered to be the first permanent, non-native, residence in Chicago, Ill ...

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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled ''Point de Sable'', ''Point au Sable'', ''Point Sable'', ''Pointe DuSable'', ''Pointe du Sable''; before 1750 – 28 August 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Indigenous settler of what would ...

(1st settler of

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Estevanico Estevanico ("Little Stephen"; modern spelling Estebanico; –1539), also known as Esteban de Dorantes or Mustafa Azemmouri (مصطفى الزموري), was the first African to explore North America. Estevanico first appears as a slave in Portu ...

* Prince Hall Masonic Temple –

Prince Hall Prince Hall (1807) was an American abolitionist and leader in the free black community in Boston. He founded Prince Hall Freemasonry and lobbied for education rights for African American children. He was also active in the back-to-Africa moveme ...

(organized 1st Negro Masonic Lodge)
Slave Revolts and Insurrections
In the summer of 1791,

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and s ...

witnessed the first successful slave revolt. This was not the first; it was one in a long series of revolts. Between 1663 and 1864, there were 109 revolts on land and another 55 at sea. Notable early insurrections include the 1712 uprising in New York City and the 1800 attack on Richmond, Virginia. That same year, Denmark Vesey, a free black, planned to seize Charleston, South Carolina, but was foiled when betrayed. House_at_John_Brown's_Farm

* Belmont –

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are ...

* John Brown Farm – John Brown’s birthplace. - New York * John Brown House - New York * John Brown Headquarters – Headquarters for the Harper’s Ferry Raid *

Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation The Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation near Coral Bay on Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands is a historic sugar plantation and later rum distillery. The sugar plantation for sugar cane growing and processing was in operation during the colonial Dani ...

* Stono River Slave Rebellion – Site of the 1739 Stono Rebellion - South Carolina.
Abolition crisis.
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Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase (french: Vente de la Louisiane, translation=Sale of Louisiana) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or ap ...

in 1803, the United States gained a huge western dominion. With it, two aspects of American life came into stark comparison. The first was the expansion of slavery across the southern half of the nation, creating a vast agricultural empire based on a large rural workforce. The second was

Manifest Destiny Manifest destiny was a cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America. There were three basic tenets to the concept: * The special virtues of the American people and th ...

, the expansion of a free society westward across the continent. The economic realities in the south precluded the development of a strong abolitionist base, while the lack of slavery among the industrialized north, neither supported nor abhorred the abolitionist cause. By 1835,

William Lloyd Garrison William Lloyd Garrison (December , 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read antislavery newspaper '' The Liberator'', which he fo ...

had established ''The Liberator'' as the nation’s most militant abolitionist newspaper. Over the next 30 years, the north and the south would try to find ways to coexist with two different economic systems and a growing abolitionist movement. * Frederick_Douglass_House

Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church –

Terre Haute, Indiana Terre Haute ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about 5 miles east of the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a ...

Levi Coffin House The Coffin House is a National Historic Landmark located in the present-day town of Fountain City in Wayne County, Indiana. The two-story, eight room, brick home was constructed circa 1838–39 in the Federal style. The Coffin home became known ...

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Fountain City, Indiana Fountain City, formerly Newport, is a town in New Garden Township, Wayne County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 796 at the 2010 census. History Fountain City was originally called New Garden, and under the latter name was laid ...

* Frederick Douglass National Historic Site – Washington D.C. *

Eleutherian College Eleutherian College, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997, was founded as Eleutherian Institute in 1848 by a group of local anti-slavery Baptists at Lancaster in ...

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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, originally Harpers Ferry National Monument, is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The park includes the historic center of Harpers F ...

– West Virginia * Little Jerusalem AME Church –

Cornwells Heights-Eddington, Pennsylvania Cornwells Heights-Eddington was a census-designated place (CDP) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,406 at the 2000 census. For the 2010 census, the area was split into two CDPs, Cornwells Heights and Eddington, t ...

* William C. Nell House – Boston, Massachusetts * Harriet Beecher Stowe House –

Brunswick, Maine Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 21,756 at the 2020 United States Census. Part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area, Brunswick is home to Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin Intern ...

* Liberty Farm –

Worcester, Massachusetts Worcester ( , ) is a city and county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, the city's population was 206,518 at the 2020 census, making it the second- most populous city in New England after ...

* Mount Zion United Methodist Church- Washington, D.C. * White Horse Farm-

Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located northwest of Philadelphia at the junction of French Creek and the Schuylkill River. It is in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The population is 18,616 ...

Civil War and emancipation The American Civil War is often seen as a war between white men over the fate of the black man. From the beginning, the African-American peoples played a significant role in the war. As early as July 1861, three months after

Fort Sumter Fort Sumter is a sea fort built on an artificial island protecting Charleston, South Carolina from naval invasion. Its origin dates to the War of 1812 when the British invaded Washington by sea. It was still incomplete in 1861 when the Battle ...

, the United States Congress passed the first Confiscation Act, granting freedom to any slave who had been used to support the Confederate war efforts, once they were behind Union Lines. Quickly General Sherman employed this new manpower in the construction of Union facilities from which to prosecute the war. With the preliminary

Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, Civil War. The Proclamation c ...

on September 22, 1862, the First Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery and All Negro unit was founded by General B.F. Butler. The War Department quickly authorized the enlistment of Negro soldier with the founding of the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth and Fifty-Fifth Infantry Regiments. By the end of the war, there were over 150 all-Negro regiments. On September 29, 1864, the Third Division of the Eighteenth Corp of the Army of the James, moved forward to take the New Market Heights outside Richmond, Virginia. The key role in this advance was given to the ‘all-Negro’ division. By the end of the day, the Union Army would stand on the heights overlooking the city of Richmond with a loss of 584 men and 10 Congressional Medal honorees now in their ranks. This action marked the beginning of the dissolution of the Confederate Government and the end of the war the following April. * USA-54th_Regiment_Memorial0

Boston African American National Historic Site The Boston African American National Historic Site, in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts's Beacon Hill neighborhood, interprets 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th-century African-American community, connected ...

– Boston, Massachusetts * Camilla-Zack Community Center District –

Mayfield, Georgia Mayfield is an unincorporated community in Hancock County, Georgia, United States on the outskirts of its primary city Sparta. History Mayfield was named after the estate of a local judge. The Shivers-Simpson House, also known as "Rock Mill", s ...

* Fort Pillow –

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 36th-largest by ...

* Goodwill Plantation –

Eastover, South Carolina Eastover is a town in Richland County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 813 at the 2010 census, down from 830 in 2000. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The J.A. Byrd Mercantile S ...

* John Mercer Langston House –

Oberlin, Ohio Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, 31 miles southwest of Cleveland. Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students. The town is the birthplace of th ...

* Lewis O'Neal Tavern –

Versailles, Kentucky Versailles () is a home rule-class city in Woodford County, Kentucky, United States. It lies by road west of Lexington and is part of the Lexington-Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area. Versailles has a population of 9,316 according to 2017 cen ...

* Oakview –

Holly Springs, Mississippi Holly Springs is a city in, and the county seat of, Marshall County, Mississippi, United States, near the southern border of Tennessee. Near the Mississippi Delta, the area was developed by European Americans for cotton plantations and was d ...

* Olustee Battlefield –

Olustee, Florida Olustee is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Baker County, Florida, Baker County, Florida, United States. The name "Olustee" is from the nearby Olustee Creek whose name derives from the Muscogee language, Creek (Muscogee) languag ...

* Port Hudson – Port Hudson, Louisiana *

Seaside Plantation Seaside Plantation, also known as the Edgar Fripp Plantation, is a historic plantation house located on Saint Helena Island near Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was built about 1795 to 1810, and is a two-story, frame dwelling in a ...

Beaufort, South Carolina Beaufort ( , a different pronunciation from that used by the city with the same name in North Carolina) is a city in and the county seat of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1711, it is the second-oldest city in Sou ...

* Slate Hill Cemetery- Morrisville, Pennsylvania * Sulphur Trestle Fort Site – Elkmont, Alabama
Reconstruction and Black Power in Dixie *

Alcorn State University Historic District Alcorn State University Historic District is a historic district on the campus of Alcorn State University in rural Claiborne County, Mississippi, northwest of Lorman. It includes Oakland Memorial Chapel, a National Historic Landmark and seve ...

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Lorman, Mississippi Lorman is an unincorporated community located in Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States. Lorman is approximately north of Fayette, near Highway 61 on Mississippi Highway 552. Lorman is the nearest community to Alcorn State University, ...

* Barber House – Hopkins, South Carolina * Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church –

Batesville, Arkansas Batesville is the county seat and largest city of Independence County, Arkansas, United States, 80 miles (183 km) northeast of Little Rock, the state capital. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city was 10,268. The city serve ...

* Clarksville Historic District – Lancaster, Indiana * Daufuskie Island Historic District – South Carolina * Fair-Rutherford and Rutherford Houses –

Columbia, South Carolina Columbia is the capital of the U.S. state of South Carolina. With a population of 136,632 at the 2020 census, it is the second-largest city in South Carolina. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, and a portion of the cit ...

* Freeman Chapel C.M.E. Church –

Hopkinsville, Kentucky Hopkinsville is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Christian County, Kentucky, United States. The population at the 2010 census was 31,577. History Early years The area of present-day Hopkinsville was initially claimed in 1796 ...

* Laurel Grove-South Cemetery –

Savannah, Georgia Savannah ( ) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the Kingdom of Great Br ...

* Lincoln University Hilltop Campus Historic District –

Jefferson City, Missouri Jefferson City, informally Jeff City, is the capital of Missouri, United States. It had a population of 43,228 at the 2020 census, ranking as the 15th most populous city in the state. It is also the county seat of Cole County and the principa ...

* Ploeger-Kerr-White House-

Bastrop, Texas Bastrop () is a city and the county seat of Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The population was 9,688 according to the 2020 census. It is located about southeast of Austin and is part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area. History Spani ...

* Springfield Baptist Church-

Greensboro, Georgia Greensboro is a town in and the county seat of Greene County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 3,648 as of the 2020 census. The city is located approximately halfway between Atlanta and Augusta on Interstate 20. History Greensboro was ...

* Stone Hall, Atlanta University –

Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the capital city, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georgia, Fulton County, the mos ...

* Charles Sumner High School – St. Louis, Missouri * Lyman Trumbull House –

Alton, Illinois Alton ( ) is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, Madison County, Illinois, United States, about north of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. The population was 25,676 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is a p ...

* Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building –

Greenville, South Carolina Greenville (; locally ) is a city in and the county seat, seat of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States. With a population of 70,720 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the sixth-largest city in the state. Greenvil ...

Segregation and the rise of Jim Crow * Wililam R. Allen School –

* Black Theater of Ardmore –

Ardmore, Oklahoma Ardmore is the county seat of Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. According to the 2010 census, the city had a population of 24,283, with an estimated population of 24,698 in 2019. The Ardmore micropolitan statistical area had an estimate ...

* Davis Avenue Branch,

Mobile Public Library The Mobile Public Library is a public library system primarily serving Mobile County, Alabama. The system is a department of the city of Mobile and receives funding from Mobile County and the city of Saraland. History The Mobile Public Library h ...

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Mobile, Alabama Mobile ( , ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 187,041 at the 2020 census, down from 195,111 at the 2010 census. It is the fourth-most-populous city in Alabama ...

Fairbanks Flats The Fairbanks Flats are four apartment buildings in Beloit, Wisconsin, built in 1917 by Fairbanks Morse to house black workers arriving from the South. The flats segregated the black families, but also constitute the kernel of Beloit's black com ...

– Lancaster, Indiana * Fourth Avenue Historic District – Birmingham, Alabama * Indiana Avenue Historic District –

Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Mar ...

*Main Building,

Arkansas Baptist College Arkansas Baptist College (ABC) is a private Baptist-affiliated historically black college in Little Rock, Arkansas. Founded in 1884 as the Minister's Institute, ABC was initially funded by the Colored Baptists of the State of Arkansas. It is th ...

– Hopkinsville, Arkansas * Smithfield Historic District –

Sweet Auburn Historic District Sweetness is a basic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugars. Sweet tastes are generally regarded as pleasurable. In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones ...

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* Ward Chapel AME Church-

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Chicago Bee Building The Chicago Bee Building is a historic building on Chicago's South Side. It originally housed the ''Chicago Bee'', a newspaper serving the African Americans of Chicago. The building now houses the Chicago Bee Branch of the Chicago Public Librar ...

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* Robert S. Abbott House –

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* Bethany Baptist Church – Chislehurst, New Jersey * Durham Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church –

Buffalo, New York Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from Sou ...

Langston Terrace Dwellings Langston Terrace Dwellings are historic structures located in the Carver Langston, Langston portion of the Carver/Langston neighborhoods in the Northeast, Washington, D.C., Northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. The apartments were built between 1 ...

– Washington, D.C. * Liberty Baptist Church –

Evansville, Indiana Evansville is a city in, and the county seat of, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 118,414 at the 2020 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city i ...

Wabash Avenue YMCA Wabash Avenue YMCA is a Chicago Landmark located within the Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois. This YMCA facility served as an important social center within th ...

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Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

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* Barber House – Hopkins, South Carolina * Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church –

* Clarksville Historic District – Lancaster, Indiana * Daufuskie Island Historic District – South Carolina * Fair-Rutherford and Rutherford Houses –

* Freeman Chapel C.M.E. Church –

* Laurel Grove-South Cemetery –

* Lincoln University Hilltop Campus Historic District –

* Ploeger-Kerr-White House,-

* Springfield Baptist Church-

* Stone Hall, Atlanta University –

* Charles Sumner High School – St. Louis, Missouri * Lyman Trumbull House –

* Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building –

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16th Street Baptist Church The 16th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. In 1963, the church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. The bombing killed four young girls in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The church is stil ...

Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% f ...

* Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina Historic District –

Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro (; formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte, North Car ...

* Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church –

Selma, Alabama Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west. Located on the banks of the Alabama River, the city has a population of 17,971 as of the 2020 census. Abo ...

* City of St. Jude Historic District –

Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County, Alabama, Montgomery County. Named for the Irish soldier Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the Gulf Coastal Plain, coas ...

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention. The church was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1974 because of its importance ...

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* First African Baptist Church –

Tuscaloosa, Alabama Tuscaloosa ( ) is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-largest city, it had an estimated population o ...

* Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District –

Lincolnville Historic District Lincolnville Historic District (formerly known as Little Africa) is a neighborhood in St. Augustine, Florida established by freedmen following the American Civil War and located on the southwest peninsula of the "nation's oldest city." It was de ...

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St. Augustine, Florida St. Augustine ( ; es, San Agustín ) is a city in the Southeastern United States and the county seat of St. Johns County on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, it is the oldest continuously inhabi ...

Little Rock Central High School Little Rock Central High School (LRCHS) is an accredited comprehensive public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The school was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation by ...

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* Malcolm X House Site –

Omaha, Nebraska Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest ...

* Howard Thurman House-

Daytona Beach, Florida Daytona Beach, or simply Daytona, is a coastal resort-city in east-central Florida. Located on the eastern edge of Volusia County near the Atlantic coastline, its population was 72,647 at the 2020 census. Daytona Beach is approximately nort ...

* Dr. Cyril O. Spann Medical Office- Columbia, South Carolina
Cemeteries The preservation of African-American cemeteries is an integral part of documenting Black history and heritage. Many lands where enslaved or freed black individuals were buried are threatened by development and neglect though new efforts are underway to protect these historic places. *

African Burial Ground National Monument African Burial Ground National Monument is a monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way (Elk Street) in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Its main building is the Ted Weiss Federal Building at 290 Broadway ...

, New York, New York * African Burial Ground in Shockoe Bottom, city of Richmond, Virginia *

African Jackson Cemetery The African Jackson Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the western part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Formed by a colony of more than 300 freedmen from Virginia, who were freed in the will of John Randolph of Roanoke, it has been the resting pla ...

, Piqua, Ohio * Barton Heights Cemeteries, city of Richmond, Virginia * East End Cemetery, city of Richmond, Virginia * Eden Cemetery, Collingdale, Pennsylvania * Evergreen Cemetery, city of Richmond, Virginia * Gethsemane Cemetery, Little Ferry, New Jersey * Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery, Athens, Georgia * Gower Cemetery, Edmond, Oklahoma * Hampton Springs Cemetery (Black Section), Carthage, Arkansas * Harlem African Burial Ground, New York, New York *

Laurel Grove Cemetery Laurel Grove Cemetery is a cemetery located in midtown Savannah, Georgia. It includes the original cemetery for whites (now known as Laurel Grove North) and a companion burial ground (called Laurel Grove South) that was reserved for slaves and fre ...

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Lebanon Cemetery Lebanon Cemetery was an African-American cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania established in 1849. It was one of only two private African-American cemeteries in Philadelphia at the time. Lebanon Cemetery was condemned in 1899. The bodies were r ...

, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Magnolia Cemetery including Mobile National Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama * Mount Pisgah Benevolence Cemetery, Romney, West Virginia * Newburgh Colored Burial Ground, Newburgh, New York * New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Historic Section, Lake Village, Arkansas * Portsmouth African Burying Ground, Portsmouth, New Hampshire *

Rye African-American Cemetery The Rye African-American Cemetery, also known as the African Cemetery in Rye, is a historic 1.4 acre cemetery on North Street in Rye, New York. It was established as a burying ground for local African-Americans in 1860 through a donation of lan ...

, Rye, New York *

Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in Mount Vernon, New York, just north of the New York City borough of The Bronx. The site was authorized in 1978 to protect Saint Paul's Church from i ...

, Mount Vernon, New York *

Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground The Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground (''Richmond's 2nd African Burial Ground'') was established by the city of Richmond, Virginia, for the interment of free people of color, and the enslaved. The heart of this now invisible burying ground is ...

, city of Richmond, Virginia * Slate Hill Cemetery, Morrisville, Pennsylvania * St. David African Methodist Episcopal Zion Cemetery, Sag Harbor, New York * Stony Hill Cemetery, Harrison, New York * Toussaint L'Ouverture County Cemetery, Tennessee

African-American historic places organized by state or territory

Alabama

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, Birmingham *

Alabama Penny Savings Bank The Alabama Penny Savings Bank, at 310 18th St. N in Birmingham, Alabama, was built in 1913. It has also been known as the Pythian Temple. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is a six-story Commercial style bui ...

, Birmingham * Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, Selma * Butler Chapel AME Zion Church, Greenville * Calhoun School Principal’s House, Calhoun * City of St. Jude Historic District, Montgomery * Dave Patton House, Mobile *

, Montgomery * Domestic Science Building, Normal * Dr. A.M. Brown House, Birmingham * Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, Auburn *

Emanuel AME Church The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, often referred to as Mother Emanuel, is a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in 1817, Emanuel AME is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the Southern United States. This, ...

, Mobile * First African Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa * First Baptist Church, Greenville * First Baptist Church, Selma * First Congregational Church of Marion, Marion * Fourth Avenue Historic District, Birmingham * Hawthorn House, Mobile * Hunter House, Mobile * Jefferson Franklin Jackson House, Montgomery * West Park, Birmingham * Laura Watson House, Gainesville * Lebanon Chapel AME Church, Fairhope * Magnolia Cemetery, including

Mobile National Cemetery Mobile National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Mobile, Alabama. It encompasses , and as of the end of 2005, had 5,326 interments. It is an annex to the larger Magnolia Cemetery.Sledge, John Sturdivant. ''Citi ...

, Mobile * Mount Zion Baptist Church, Anniston * Murphy-Collins House, Tuscaloosa * Davis Avenue Branch, Mobile Public Library, Mobile * North Lawrence-Monroe Street Historic District, Montgomery * Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Montgomery * Pastorium, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery * Phillips Memorial Auditorium, Marion * Pratt City Carline Historic District, Birmingham *

Rickwood Field Rickwood Field, located in Birmingham, Alabama, is the oldest professional baseball park in the United States. It was built for the Birmingham Barons in 1910 by industrialist and team-owner Rick Woodward and has served as the home park for the Bi ...

, Birmingham *

Searcy Hospital Searcy Hospital was a state-owned and operated psychiatric hospital in Mount Vernon, Alabama. It was situated on the grounds of the former Mount Vernon Arsenal, a former United States Army munitions depot dating back to 1828. It closed permanent ...

, Mount Vernon * Smithfield Historic District, Birmingham * St. Louis Street Missionary Baptist Church, Mobile * State Street AME Zion Church, Mobile *

Stone Street Baptist Church Stone Street Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church in Mobile, Alabama. The congregation was established well before the American Civil War, with Stone Street Baptist recognized today as one of Alabama's most influential A ...

, Mobile * Sulphur Trestle Fort Site, Elkmont * Swayne Hall, Talladega * Talladega College Historic District, Talladega * Theological Building- AME Zion Theological Institute, Greenville * Tulane Building, Montgomery *

Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site Tuskegee University (Tuskegee or TU), formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute, is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was founded on Independence Day in 1881 by the state legislature. The campus was desi ...

, Tuskegee * Twin Beach AME Church, Fairhope * Ward Nicholson Corner Store, Greenville * West Fifteenth Street Historic District, Anniston * Westwood Plantation (Boundary Increase), Uniontown * Windham Construction Office Building, Birmingham

Arizona

* Phoenix Union Colored High School, Phoenix

Arkansas

* Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Batesville * Dunbar Junior and Senior High School and Junior College, Little Rock * Hampton Springs Cemetery (Black Section), Carthage * Henry Clay Mills House, Van Buren * Ish House, Little Rock * Kiblah School, Doddridge *

Little Rock High School Little Rock Central High School (LRCHS) is an accredited comprehensive public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The school was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation b ...

, Little Rock * Main Building, Arkansas Baptist College, Little Rock * Mosaic Templars of America Headquarters Building, Little Rock * Mount Olive United Methodist Church, Van Buren * Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Brinkley * New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Historic Section, Lake Village * Taborian Hall, Little Rock * Wortham Gymnasium, Oak Grove

California

Allensworth Historic District, Allensworth *

Liberty Hall Liberty Hall ( ga, Halla na Saoirse), in Dublin, Ireland, is the headquarters of the Services, Industrial, Professional, and Technical Union (SIPTU). Designed by Desmond Rea O'Kelly, it was completed in 1965. It was for a time the tallest ...

, Oakland * Moses Rodgers House, Stockton * Somerville Hotel, Los Angeles * Sugg House, Sonora

Colorado

* Barney L. Ford Building, Denver * Justina Ford House, Denver * Winks Panorama, Pinecliffe * Earl School, a rare example of a building associated with rural African-Americans in Colorado, of a farming homestead colony.

Connecticut

* First Church of Christ, Farmington *

Goffe Street Special School for Colored Children The Goffe Street Special School for Colored Children is an important landmark of African-American history at 106 Goffe Street in New Haven, Connecticut. The building, also known as Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Masons, was added to the National Regis ...

, New Haven * Lighthouse Archeological Sites, Barkhamstead *

Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses The Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses are historic residences in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The simple, clapboard-covered dwellings were built in 1848 in what became known as Little Liberia, a neighborhood settled by free blacks starting in the first ...

, Bridgeport * Mather Homestead, Hartford * Prudence Crandall House, Canterbury

Delaware

* Harmon School, Millsboro * Johnson School, Millsboro *

Lewes Historic District Lewes Historic District is a national historic district located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. The district includes 122 contributing buildings and 6 contributing sites encompassing most of the 17th-century town of Lewes, together with p ...

, Lewes * Loockeman Hall, Dover *

Odessa Historic District Odessa Historic District is a national historic district located at Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 82 contributing buildings in the central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and busine ...

, Odessa *

Old Fort Church Old Fort Church is an historic African-American Methodist church located on Old Baltimore Pike in Christiana, New Castle County, Delaware New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castl ...

Christiana * Public School No. 111-c, Christiana * Smyrna Historic District, Smyrna

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

* Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery, Athens

Hawaii

*African American Diversity Cultural Center

Idaho

* St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, Boise

Illinois

* Christian Hill Historic District, Alton * Dr. Daniel Hale Williams House,

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = List of sovereign states, Count ...

* Eighth Regiment Armory, Chicago *

New Philadelphia Town Site The New Philadelphia National Historic Site is the original site of the now-vanished town of New Philadelphia, Illinois. It is located near the city of Barry, in Pike County. Founded in 1836, New Philadelphia was the first town in the United ...

/ Free Frank McWorter Grave Site, Barry * Ida B. Wells-Barnett House, Chicago *

, Chicago * Lyman Trumbull House, Alton *

Overton Hygienic Building Hygienic Manufacturing Company, also known as Overton Hygienic Company, was a cosmetics company established by Anthony Overton. It was one of the nation's largest producers of African-American cosmetics. Anthony Overton also ran other businesses ...

, Chicago * Owen Lovejoy Homestead, Princeton * Quinn Chapel of the AME Church, Chicago * Robert S. Abbott House, Chicago * Unity Hall, Chicago (located in the

Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have ...

of Chicago) * Victory Sculpture, Chicago *

, Chicago

Indiana

* Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Terre Haute * Bethel AME Church, Franklin * Booker T. Washington School, Rushville *

Crispus Attucks High School Crispus Attucks High School (also known as Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School) is a high school of the Indianapolis Public Schools in Indianapolis, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is named for Crispus Attucks (c.1723 – March 5, 1770), ...

, Indianapolis *

, Lancaster *

Iddings-Gilbert-Leader-Anderson Block Iddings-Gilbert-Leader-Anderson Block is a row of five connected historic commercial buildings located at Kendallville, Noble County, Indiana. The block was built between 1891 and 1895, and is a two-story, red brick building with pressed metal ...

, Kendallville * Indiana Avenue Historic District, Indianapolis * J. Woodrow Wilson House, Marion *

, Fountain City (NHL) * Liberty Baptist Church, Evansville * Lockefield Garden Apartments, Indianapolis * Madame C. J. Walker Building, Indianapolis * Minor House, Indianapolis *

Old Richmond Historic District The Old Richmond Historic District is a neighborhood of historic residential and commercial buildings and national historic district located at Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. The district encompasses 212 contributing buildings located just e ...

, Richmond * Ransom Place Historic District, Indianapolis * Rockville Historic District, Rockville * St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, Gary *

Theodore Roosevelt High School (Gary) Theodore Roosevelt College and Career Academy (TRCCA), formerly known as Theodore Roosevelt High School and often referred to as Gary Roosevelt, was a charter school located in the Midtown neighborhood of Gary, Indiana, United States. In Februar ...

Iowa

Alexander Clark House, Muscatine * Bethel AME Church, Cedar Rapids * Bethel AME Church, Davenport * Bethel AME Church, Iowa City * Burns United Methodist Church, Des Moines *

Buxton Historic Townsite The Buxton Historic Townsite is a historical site located east of Lovilia, Iowa, United States in rural Monroe County. The unincorporated community was founded in 1895, developed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway as a coal mining company to ...

, Lovilia *

Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School The Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School was a military base and training facility on the south side of Des Moines, Iowa. Established in 1901, the base is notable as the place where African Americans were trained to be officers ...

, Des Moines * Second Baptist Church, Centerville

Kansas

* Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus * John Brown Cabin. Osawatomie * George Washington Carver Homestead Site, Beeler * Arkansas Valley lodge No. 21, Prince Hall Masons, Wichita * Calvary Baptist, Wichita *

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site ''Brown v. Board of Education'' National Historical Park was established in Topeka, Kansas, on October 26, 1992, by the United States Congress to commemorate the landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case ''Brown v. Board of Educatio ...

, Topeka

Kentucky

A. Jackson Crawford Building, Somerset * Abner Knox farm, Danville * Anderson House, Haskingsville * Andrew Muldrow Quarters, Tyrone *

Artelia Anderson Hall Artelia is a French design firm specializing in engineering, project management, and consultancy. Launched in 2010, Artelia is active building construction, water, energy, environment, industry, maritime operations, transportation, urban develo ...

, Paduch * Ash Emison Quarters, Delaplain * Bayless Quarters, North Middletown * Bethel AME Church, Shelbyville * Bloomfield Historic District, Bloomfield * Broadway Temple AME Zion Church, Louisville * Central Colored School, Louisville * Chandler Normal School Building and Webster Hall, Lexington * Charity’s House, Falmouth * Chestnut Street Baptist Church, Louisville * Church of Our Merciful Saviour, Louisville * E.E. Hume Hall, Frankfort * Embry Chapel Church, Elizabethtown * Emery-Price Historic District, Covington * First African Baptist Church and Parsonage, Georgetown * First African Baptist Church, Lexington * First Baptist Church, Elizabethtown * First Baptist Church, Frankfort * First Colored Baptist Church, Bowling Green * Freeman Chapel C.M.E. Church, Hopkinsville * Hogan Quarters, Versailles * Jackson Hall, Kentucky State University, Frankfort * James Briscoe Quarters, Delaplain * Jeffersontown Colored School, Jeffersontown * John Leavell Quarters, Bryantville * Johnson’s Chapel AME Zion Church, Springfield * Johnson-Pence House, Georgetown * Joseph Patterson Quarters, Midway * KEAS Tabernacle Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Mount Sterling * Knights of Pythias Temple, Louisville * Lewis O'Neal Tavern, Versailles * Limerick Historic District (Boundary Increase), Louisville * Lincoln Hall, Berea * Lincoln Institute Complex, Simpsonville * Lincoln School, Paduch * Louisville Free Public Library, Western Colored Branch, Louisville * Meriwether House, Louisville * Midway Historic District, Midway * Minor Chapel AME Church, Taylorsville * Mount Vernon AME Church, Gamaliel * Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Middleboro * Municipal College Campus, Simmons University, Louisville * Old Statehouse Historic District, Frankfort * Perry Shelburne House, Taylorsville * Pisgah Rural Historic District, Lexington/Versailles * Poston House, Hopkinsville * Reed Road Rural Historic District, Lexington * Russell Historic District, Louisville * Solomon Thomas House, Salvisa * South Frankfort Neighborhood Historic District, Frankfort * St. James AME Church, Ashland * St. John United Methodist Church, Shelbyville * Stone Barn on Brushy Creek, Carlisle * Stone Quarters on Burgin Road, Harrodsburg * The Grange, Paris * Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church, Hickman * University of Louisville Belknap Campus, Louisville * Whitney M. Young, Jr., Birthplace, Simpsonville

Louisiana

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Arna Wendell Bontemps House, Alexandria * Badin-Roque House, Natchez *

Canebrake A canebrake or canebreak is a thicket of any of a variety of ''Arundinaria'' grasses: '' A. gigantea'', '' A. tecta'' and '' A. appalachiana''. As a bamboo, these giant grasses grow in thickets up to 24 ft tall. ''A. gigantea'' is generally ...

, Ferriday * Carter Plantation, Springfield * Central High School, Shreveport *

Congo Square Congo Square (french: Place Congo) is an open space, now within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street north of the French Quarter. The square is famous for its ...

, New Orleans * Evergreen Plantation, Wallace * Fazendeville, St. Bernard Parish * Flint-Goodridge Hospital of Dillard University, New Orleans * Holy Rosary Institute, Lafayette * James H. Dillard House, New Orleans * Kenner and Kugler Cemeteries Archeological District, Norco * Leland College, Baker * Magnolia Plantation, Derry * Maison de Marie Therese, Bermuda * McKinley High School, Baton Rouge *

Melrose Plantation Melrose Plantation, also known as Yucca Plantation, is a National Historic Landmark located in the unincorporated community of Melrose in Natchitoches Parish in north central Louisiana. This is one of the largest plantations in the United State ...

, Melrose * Port Hudson, Port Hudson * Southern University Archives Building, Scotlandville * St. James AME Church, New Orleans * St. Joseph Historic District, St. Joseph * St. Joseph's School (Burnside, Louisiana) * St. Paul Lutheran Church, Mansura * St. Peter AME Church, New Orleans * Tangipahoa Parish Training School Dormitory, Kentwood

Maine

* Green Memorial AME Zion Church, Portland * John B. Russwurm House, Portland * Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Brunswick * Abyssinian Meeting House, Portland * Malaga Island, Phippsburg

Maryland

African Methodist Episcopal Church The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology and has a connexional polity. The African Methodist Episcopal ...

, Cumberland * Berkley School, Darlington * Don S.S. Goodloe House, Bowie * Douglass Place, Baltimore *

Douglass Summer House The Douglass Summer House is a historic home at Highland Beach, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1894–95, is one of the first built in the small community of Highland Beach and is the oldest structure remaining at ...

, Highland Beach * Eagle Harbor * Frederick Douglass High School, Baltimore *

Grassland A grassland is an area where the vegetation is dominated by grasses ( Poaceae). However, sedge ( Cyperaceae) and rush ( Juncaceae) can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs. Grasslands occur na ...

, Annapolis Junction * John Brown’s Headquarters, Samples Manor * Jonestown, Howard County *

L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site is an archaeological site near Frederick in Frederick County, Maryland. The location, within the boundaries of Monocacy National Battlefield, was the site of l'Hermitage Plantation, founded about 1793 ...

, Frederick *

McComas Institute McComas Institute is a historic school located at Joppa, Harford County, Maryland, United States. The school was built in 1867, and is a one-story frame structure with a gable roof, five bays long and three bays wide, and resting on a stone founda ...

, Joppa * Mt. Gilboa Chapel, Oella * Mt. Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church, Annapolis *

Orchard Street United Methodist Church Orchard Street United Methodist Church, formerly known as Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a church built in a mixture of revival styles. It ...

, Baltimore * Public School No. 111, Baltimore * Snow Hill Site, Port Deposit Archeological site. * St. John’s Church, Ruxton * Stanley Institute, Cambridge * Stanton Center, Annapolis

Massachusetts

Abiel Smith School Abiel Smith School, founded in 1835, is a school located at 46 Joy Street in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, adjacent to the African Meeting House. It is named for Abiel Smith, a white philanthropist who left money (an estimated $4,000) in ...

, Boston *

African Meeting House The African Meeting House, also known variously as First African Baptist Church, First Independent Baptist Church and the Belknap Street Church, was built in 1806 and is now the oldest black church edifice still standing in the United States. It ...

, Boston *

Black Heritage Trail The Boston African American National Historic Site, in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts's Beacon Hill neighborhood, interprets 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th-century African-American community, connected ...

, Boston *

Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church is an historic African Methodist Episcopal Church at 551 Warren Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The current church building (originally All Souls Unitarian Church) was built in 1888 by J. Wil ...

, Boston * John Coburn House, Boston * William C. Nell House, Boston * John J. Smith House, Boston * Maria Baldwin House, Cambridge * Howe House, Cambridge * William Monroe Trotter House, Dorchester * William E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite, Great Barrington * Camp Atwater, North Brookfield * Paul Cuffe Farm, Westport * Liberty Farm, Worcester

Michigan

Idlewild Historic District, Idlewild * Breitmeyer-Tobin Building, Detroit *

Dunbar Hospital The Dunbar Hospital was the first hospital for the black community in Detroit, Michigan. It is located at 580 Frederick Street, and is currently the administrative headquarters of the Detroit Medical Society. It was listed on the National Regi ...

, Detroit * Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Covent, and Rectory, Detroit * Second Baptist Church of Detroit, Detroit *

Ossian H. Sweet House The Ossian H. Sweet House is a privately owned house located at 2905 Garland Street in Detroit, Michigan. The house was designed by Maurice Herman Finkel, and in 1925 it was bought by its second owner, physician Ossian Sweet, an African America ...

, Detroit * The Rainbow Inn, Petoskey * Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center, Detroit * Sidney D. Miller Middle School, Detroit *

Detroit Wall The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, also referred to as Detroit's Wailing Wall, Berlin Wall or The Birwood Wall, is a , separation wall that stretches about in length. 1 foot (0.30 m) is buried in the ground and the remaining 5 feet (1.5 m) is visibl ...

, Detroit * Nacirema Club, Detroit * New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit * Underground Railroad Living Museum, Detroit * Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit * Black Bottom, Detroit

Minnesota

Avalon Hotel, Rochester * Casiville Bullard House,

St. Paul Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...

* Edward S. Hall House, St. Paul * Harriet Island Pavilion, St. Paul *

Highland Park Tower The Highland Park Water Tower is a water tower in the Highland Park area of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was designed by Clarence W. Wigington, the nation's first African-American African Americans (also referred to as Blac ...

, St. Paul * Holman Field Administration Building, St. Paul * Lena O. Smith House, Minneapolis *

Pilgrim Baptist Church Pilgrim Baptist Church is a historic church located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, USA. The landmarked building was originally constructed for a synagogue, Kehilath Anshe Ma'arav. The church is notable both as an architectural landmar ...

, St. Paul * St. Mark’s African Methodist Episcopal Church, Duluth

Mississippi

Missouri

* First African Baptist Church (St. Louis, Missouri) *

Washington Park Cemetery Washington Park Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery active from 1920 until 1980 and located in Berkeley, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Large-scale disinterment occurred over several decades for various construction pro ...

, Berkeley

Montana

* Fort Missoula Historic District, Missoula

Nebraska

Jewell Building The Jewell Building is a city landmark in North Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1923, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 2221 North 24th Street, the building was home to the Dreamland Ballroom for more than 40 years, a ...

, Omaha * Malcolm X House Site, Omaha *

Webster Telephone Exchange Building The Webster Telephone Exchange Building is located in North Omaha, Nebraska. It was designed by the well-known Omaha architect Thomas Rogers Kimball. After the Easter Sunday Tornado of 1913, the building was used as the center of recovery operatio ...

, Omaha

Nevada

Moulin Rouge Hotel The Moulin Rouge Hotel was a hotel and casino located in West Las Vegas that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Although its peak operation lasted only six months in the second half of 1955, it was the first dese ...

, Las Vegas

New Hampshire

* Portsmouth African Burying Ground, Portsmouth

New Jersey

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Ackerman-Smith House, Saddle River * Bethany Baptist Church, Newark *

Bordentown School The Bordentown School (officially titled the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, the State of New Jersey Manual Training School and Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth, though other names were used over the years) ...

* Fisk Chapel, Fair Haven * Gethsemane Cemetery, Little Ferry * Grant AME Church, Chesilhurst * Perth Amboy City Hall *

Roosevelt Stadium Roosevelt Stadium was a baseball stadium at Droyer's Point in Jersey City, New Jersey. It opened in April 1937 and hosted high-minor league baseball, 15 major league baseball games, plus championship boxing matches, top-name musical acts, an ...

* Shadow Lawn, West Long Branch * State Street Public School, Newark * William R. Allen School, Burlington

New Mexico

, Zuni

New York

369th Regiment Armory The 369th Regiment Armory is a historic National Guard Armory building located at 2366 Fifth Avenue, between West 142nd and 143rd Streets, in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. It was built for the 369th Regiment, also known as the "Harlem Hell Fi ...

, Manhattan *

, Manhattan * A.M.E. Zion Church of Kingston and Mount Zion Cemetery, Kingston *

Apollo Theater The Apollo Theater is a music hall at 253 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is a ...

, Manhattan * Beecher-McFadden Estate, Peekskill * Bethel AME Church and Manse, Huntington * Claude McKay Residence, Manhattan *

Dunbar Apartments The Dunbar Apartments, also known as the Paul Laurence Dunbar Garden Apartments or Dunbar Garden Apartments, is a complex of buildings located on West 149th and West 150th Streets between Frederick Douglass Boulevard/Macombs Place and Adam Clay ...

, Manhattan * Durham Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, Buffalo * Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington House, Manhattan * Elmendorf Reformed Church, Manhattan, and its newly discovered burial ground at 126th St and Second Avenue * Florence Mills House, Manhattan * Foster Memorial AME Zion Church, Tarrytown * Harlem African Burial Ground, New York * Harlem River Houses, Manhattan * Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, Auburn * Houses on Hunterfly Road District, Brooklyn *

, Croton-on-Hudson * James Weldon Johnson House, Manhattan * Jay Estate, Rye * John Brown Farm, Lake Placid * John Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson House, Queens *

Langston Hughes House Langston Hughes House is a historic home located in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. It is an Italianate style dwelling built in 1869. It is a three story with basement, rowhouse faced in brownstone and measuring 20 feet wide and 45 feet deep. N ...

, Manhattan *

Lemuel Haynes House The Lemuel Haynes House is a historic house on County Road 27 in the village of South Granville, New York. Built in 1793, it was the home of Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833), the first African-American clergyman ordained in North America, from 1822 ...

, New South Granville *

Louis Armstrong House The Louis Armstrong House is a historic house museum at 34-56 107th Street in the Corona neighborhood of Queens in New York City. and It was the home of Louis Armstrong and his wife Lucille Wilson from 1943 until his death in 1971. Lu ...

, Queens * Macedonia Baptist Church, Buffalo * Matthew Henson Residence, Manhattan * Minton’s Playhouse, Manhattan * Monument to First Rhode Island Regiment, Yorktown Heights * Newburgh Colored Burial Ground, Newburgh * New York Amsterdam News Building, Manhattan * Paul Robeson Home, Manhattan * Ralph Bunche House, Queens *

Rapp Road Community Historic District The Rapp Road Community Historic District is located in the Pine Bush area of Albany, New York. It is a residential neighborhood. In 2002 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was established in the 1920s by Rev. Louis ...

, Albany *

, Rye *

, Mount Vernon * Sandy Ground Historic Archeological District, Staten Island *

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) ...

, Manhattan * Skinny House (Mamaroneck, New York), Mamaroneck * St. Benedict the Moor Church, Manhattan * St David African Methodist Episcopal Zion Cemetery, Sag Harbor * St. George’s Episcopal Church, New York * St. James AME Church, Ithaca *

St. Nicholas Historic District The St. Nicholas Historic District, known colloquially as "Striver's Row", is a historic district located on both sides of West 138th and West 139th Streets between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass ...

, Manhattan * St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Manhattan * Stony Hill Cemetery, Harrison * Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island * Valley Road Historic District, Manhasset * Villa Lewaro, Irvington * Will Marion Cook House, Manhattan * Waddington Historic Distinct, Waddington

North Carolina

Ohio

* Mount Zion Baptist Church, Athens * Jacob Goldsmith House, Cleveland * Lincoln Theatre, Columbus * South School, Yellow Springs * Colonel Charles Young House, Wilberforce * William C. Johnston House and General Store, Burlington * Macedonia Church, Burlington * John Mercer Langston House, Oberlin *

, Piqua * Classic Theater, Dayton *

Dunbar Historic District The Dunbar Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district on S Paul Laurence Dunbar Street in Dayton, Ohio. The district is famous for being the home of Paul Laurence Dunbar. On June 30, 1980, it was added to the National Regi ...

, Dayton * Women’s Christian Association, Dayton * St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Cleveland * St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, Youngstown * St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Cincinnati

Oklahoma

* A. J. Mason Building, Tullahassee * Black Theater of Ardmore, Ardmore * Boley Historic District, Boley * C.L. Cooper Building, Eufaula StraightUClass1901

* Douglass High School Auditorium, Ardmore * Dunbar School, Ardmore * Eastside Baptist Church, Okmulgee * First Baptist Central Church, Okmulgee * First Baptist Church, Muskogee * Gower Cemetery, Edmond * J. Cody Johnson Building, Wewoka * Johnson Hotel and Boarding House, Duncan * Manual Training High School for Negroes, Muskogee * Melvin F. Luster House, Oklahoma City * Mill-Washington School, Red Bird *

Miller Brothers 101 Ranch The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma before statehood. Located near modern-day Ponca City, Oklahoma, Ponca City, it was founded by Colonel George Washington Miller, a veteran of the Confederate Army ...

, Ponca City * Okmulgee Colored Hospital, Okmulgee * Okmulgee Downtown Historic District, Okmulgee * Red Bird City Hall, Redbird * Rock Front, Vernon * Rosenwald Hall, Lima * Taft City Hall, Taft * Ward Chapel AME Church, Muskogee

Pennsylvania

* Adelphi School, Philadelphia *

Asbury AME Church Asbury AME Church is an African Methodist Episcopal Church founded in 1845 in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the second African Methodist Episcopal church founded in Chester behind the Union African Methodist Chu ...

, Chester * Bethel AME Church, Reading * Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Monongahela City, Monongahela City *

Calvary Baptist Church Calvary ( la, Calvariae or ) or Golgotha ( grc-gre, Γολγοθᾶ, ''Golgothâ'') was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was said to have been crucified according to the canonical Gospels. Since at least the early medi ...

, Chester *

Camptown Historic District The Camptown Historic District, also known as the La Mott Historic District and Camp William Penn, is a national historic district located in La Mott, Pennsylvania. It was the residence of famous abolitionist and suffragette Lucretia Mott. It wa ...

, LaMott *

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is a public historically black university in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1837, it is the oldest university out of all historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States. It is a m ...

, Cheyney * Clement Atkinson Memorial Hospital, Coatesville *

Crozer Theological Seminary The Crozer Theological Seminary was a Baptist seminary located in Upland, Pennsylvania. Martin Luther King Jr. was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary from 1948 to 1951, and graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree. In 1970, the semin ...

, Upland * Eden Cemetery, Collingdale * Ercildoun Historic District in Chester County * Frances Ellen Watkins Harper House, Philadelphia *

Hamorton Historic District Hamorton Historic District is a national historic district in the center of Hamorton, Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It encompasses 75 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the crossroads communi ...

, Kennett Square * Henry O. Tanner House, Philadelphia *

Institute for Colored Youth The Institute for Colored Youth was founded in 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It became the first high school for African-Americans in the United States, although there were schools that admitted African Americans preceding it ...

, Philadelphia * John Brown House, Chambersburg *

, Philadelphia * Little Jerusalem AME Church, Cornwells Heights *

Melrose Melrose may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Melrose, Scottish Borders, a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland ** Melrose Abbey, ruined monastery ** Melrose RFC, rugby club Australia * Melrose, Queensland, a locality in the South Burnett R ...

, Cheyney * Mother Bethel AME Church, Philadelphia * Mount Gilead AME Church, Buckingham Township * Oakdale, Chadds Ford * Slate Hill Cemetery, Morrisville * Thompson Cottage, Concord Township * Union Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia *

Wesley AME Zion Church Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church (also known as Big Wesley) is an historic church, which is located at 1500 Lombard Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, it also appears in the Philadelphia Reg ...

, Philadelphia * White Hall of Bristol College, Croyden * White Horse Farm, Phoenixville

Puerto Rico

* Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, Manati

Rhode Island

* Battle of Rhode Island Site, Portsmouth * Cato Hill Historic District, Woonsocket * Hard Scrabble, Providence * Shiloh Baptist Church, Newport *

Smithville Seminary The Smithville Seminary was a Freewill Baptist institution established in 1839 on what is now Institute Lane in Smithville-North Scituate, Rhode Island. Renamed the Lapham Institute in 1863, it closed in 1876. The site was then used as the campus ...

, Scituate

South Carolina

* Hampton-Pinckney Historic District, Greenville * Paris Simkins House, Edgefield * Dr. Cyril O. Spann Medical Office, Columbia

Tennessee

* Orange Mound, Memphis, Memphis * Toussaint L'Ouverture County Cemetery, Franklin

Texas

Utah

* Trinity AME Church, Salt Lake City

Vermont

* Old Stone House Museum, Brownington

Virginia

* Belmont –

* Woodland Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia) *

(Richmond, Virginia) * First African Baptist Church (Richmond, Virginia) * Lumpkin's Jail (Richmond, Virginia) * Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site (Richmond, Virginia) *

Jackson Ward Jackson Ward is a historically African-American district in Richmond, Virginia with a long tradition of African-American businesses. It is located less than a mile from the Virginia State Capitol, sitting to the west of Court End and north of B ...

(Richmond, Virginia) * Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church (Richmond, Virginia) * St. Luke Building (Richmond, Virginia) *

Hippodrome Theater (Richmond, Virginia) The Hippodrome Theater is located in Richmond, Virginia. It is situated in the historical African-American neighborhood of Jackson Ward, which was referred to as "The Harlem of the South" during the 1920s.The Hippodrome Theater. (2014). Retrieved ...

Virginia Union University Virginia Union University is a private historically black Baptist university in Richmond, Virginia. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. History The American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) founded the school as Rich ...

(Richmond, Virginia) * Fourth Baptist Church Richmond, Virginia)
Ebenezer Baptist Church
(Richmond, Virginia)
African Burying Ground
(Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, Virginia)

Virgin Islands

* Christiansted Historic District,

Christiansted Christiansted is the largest town on Saint Croix, one of the main islands composing the United States Virgin Islands, a territory of the United States of America. The town is named after King Christian VI of Denmark. History The town was founded ...

* Christiansted National Historic Site, Christiansted *

Emmaus Moravian Church and Manse Emmaus (; Greek: Ἐμμαούς, ''Emmaous''; la, Emmaus; , ''Emmaom''; ar, عمواس, ''ʻImwas'') is a town mentioned in the Gospel of Luke of the New Testament. Luke reports that Jesus appeared, after his death and resurrection, befo ...

, Coral Bay *

, Coral Bay * Estate Neltjeberg, Charlotte Amalie * Estate Niesky, Charlotte Amalie * Fort Christian, Charlotte Amalie * Friedensthal Mission, Christiansted *

New Herrnhut Moravian Church New Herrnhut Moravian Church is a historic Moravian Church, Moravian church in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The Moravians, a Protestant religious group based in the town of Herrnhut in Saxony, began missionary work in 1732 in St. Thomas and ...

, Charlotte Amalie

Washington

Washington Hall (Seattle, Washington) Washington Hall is a historic building and a registered city landmark in Seattle, Washington, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was originally built as a community center by the Danish Brotherhood in America, a fra ...

West Virginia

African Zion Baptist Church African Zion Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 4104 Malden Drive in Malden, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It is within the Malden Historic District. It is a one-story frame structure built atop a stone foundation. It has a gab ...

, Malden * Barnett Hospital and Nursing School, Huntington * Bethel AME Church, Parkersburg * Booker T. Washington High School, London * Camp Washington-Carver Complex, Clifftop *

Canty House Canty House, also known as "The Magnolia," is a historic home located on the campus of West Virginia State University at Institute, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was built about 1900, as a simply designed, two-story frame farm house. In 19 ...

, Institute * Douglass Junior and Senior High School, Huntington * East Hall, Institute * Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House, Charleston *

Garnet High School Garnet High School, also known as Garnet Career Center and Garnet Adult Education Center, is a historic African-American high school in Charleston, West Virginia. The school was established when "twelve African-American students in Kanawha Count ...

, Charleston * Halltown Colored Free School, Halltown * Halltown Union Colored Sunday School, Halltown * Hancock House, Bluefield * Henry Logan Memorial AME Church, Parkersburg *

, Harpers Ferry **

Storer College Storer College was a historically black college in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, that operated from 1867 to 1955. A national icon for Black Americans, in the town where the 'end of American slavery began', as Frederick Douglass famously put i ...

, Harpers Ferry * Jefferson County Courthouse, Charles Town * Kelly Miller High School, Clarksburg * Maple Street Historic District, Lewisburg * Mattie V. Lee Home, Charleston * Mount Pisgah Benevolence Cemetery, Romney * Mt. Pleasant School, Gerrardstown * Mt. Tabor Baptist Church, Lewisburg * Samuel Starks House, Charleston * Second Ward Negro Elementary School, Morgantown * Simpson Memorial United Methodist Church, Charleston * Trinity Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Clarksburg *

Union Historic District Union Historic District is a national historic district located at Union, Monroe County, West Virginia. The district includes 174 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 7 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the Union ...

, Union *

Washington Place Washington Place is a Greek Revival palace in the Hawaii Capital Historic District in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was where Queen Liliuokalani was arrested during the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Later it became the official residence of the governo ...

, Romney * West Virginia Colored Children's Home, Huntington * Weston Colored School, Weston * World War Memorial, Kimball

Wisconsin

* East Dayton Street Historic District, Madison

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