Feel the struggles and triumphs, experience the history and impact, and celebrate Black History Month by seeing history before your eyes. Traveling to historic places and museums is both educational and experiential. Here are our picks for places to celebrate Black History Month.
Discover the fight for Civil Rights on the Civil Rights Trail. Spanning 15 states and over 100 historic locations, the trail chronicles the struggle of African Americans to achieve equal rights. From the site of school integration to the Alabama marches to Bloody Sunday and finally, the Supreme Court, experience the movement that changed the course of American history.
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The National Civil Rights Museum is located at the Lorraine Motel. This is the site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. The museum is filled with over 200 artifacts and exhibits. The museum’s mission is to “chronicle the American civil rights movement and tell the story of the ongoing struggle for human rights.”
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Established in 2003, The National Museum of African American History and Culture has over 36,000 artifacts and is “devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture.” Learn about the cultural impact African Americans have made in music and sports, in addition to exploring the history of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement.
While you’re in Washington D.C., also pay homage to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy,” said Martin Luther King, Jr. in Strength to Love in 1963. This quote is just one of the engravings you can see on the epic monument.
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“I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger,” said Harriet Tubman. Hailed the best-known conductor of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman guided almost 100 slaves to freedom. The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historic Park is dedicated to Harriet Tubman’s grand commitment to repeatedly risk her life to save others. Visit the Harriet Tubman Museum or the Harriet Tubman Canal to learn more about her life and legacy.
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Before the Civil War, more than half of Bostonian African Americans resided in Beacon Hill. Appropriately, the Boston African American Historical site is located there and filled with history. Walk the 1.6 mile Black Heritage Trail to see significant sights, and learn about the Underground Railroad and abolitionists. Make a stop at the African Meeting House, built in 1806, it is the oldest standing African American church in the United States.
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