Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail (Alabama)

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Harriet Tubman National Historic Park (New York)
Harriet Tubman National Historic Park (New York)
The National Park Service maintains a number of historic sites associated with black history. Those sites are featured here, each with a link to visitors information from the park service.
Full StoryThe National Park Service maintains a number of historic sites associated with black history. Those sites are featured here, each with a link to visitors information from the park service.
Full StoryMartin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site (Georgia)
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site (Georgia)
The National Park Service maintains a number of historic sites associated with black history. Ten of those sites are featured here, each with a link to visitors information from the park service.Full StoryBrown vs. Board of Education Nat'l Historic Site (Kansas)
Brown vs. Board of Education Nat'l Historic Site, Topeka, Kansas
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site commemorates the Supreme Court's landmark decision to end segregation in the country's public schools.Full StoryBoston African American National Historic Site (Massachusetts)
Boston African American National Historic Site
The Black Heritage Trail on Boston's Beacon Hill pieces together the story of the free African American community that lived here during the decades leading up to and during the Civil War.Full StoryFort Davis National Historic Site (Texas)
Fort Davis National Historic Site (Texas)
Fort Davis is important in understanding the presence of African Americans in the West and in the frontier military because the 24th and 25th U.S.Full StoryFrederick Douglass Home (Washington, D.C.)
Frederick Douglass Home, Washington, D.C.
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818, and was given the name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (Baly), after his mother Harriet Bailey.Full StoryHarpers Ferry National Historic Park (Virginia)
Harpers Ferry National Historic Site (Virginia)
On October 16, 17, and 18, 1859, John Brown and his "Provisional Army of the United States" took possession of the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.Full StoryNew Orleans Jazz National Historic Park (Louisiana)
New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park (Louisiana)
Jazz, much of it created and played by black musicians, is an important part of African-American cultural history as well as the social history of New Orleans.Full StoryPort Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial (California)
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial (California)
The national memorial at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine recalls the largest homeland disaster of World War II and helps tell the story of the segregated military that fought that war.Full StorySelma to Montgomery National Historic Trail (Alabama)
Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail
The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail was established by Congress in 1996, to commemorate the events, people, and route of the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama.Full Story
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