Abolitionist Place - description
Willoughby and Duffield Streets In September of 2007, Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn got a new name.
Jan 21, 2008
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Abyssinian Baptist Church - description
132 West 138th Street Known for its charismatic leadership and community outreach, the Abyssinian Baptist Church was formed in 1808 by a group of African Americans and Ethiopians who refused to accept the segregated seating in the First Baptist Church of New York City.
Jan 21, 2008
Abyssinian Baptist Church - Kenneth Jackson commentary
Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University, on the Abyssinian Baptist Church.
Jan 21, 2008
Abyssinian Baptist Church - Robert O'Meally commentary
Robert O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Columbia University, on the Abyssinian Baptist Church.
Jan 21, 2008
African Burial Ground - description
290 Broadway The African Burial Ground is a federally designated historic landmark and archaeological site that was used as a cemetery by free and enslaved people of African descent during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Jan 21, 2008
African Burial Ground - Kenneth Jackson commentary
Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University, discusses the African Burial Ground.
Jan 21, 2008
African Burial Ground - Kellie Jones commentary
Kellie Jones, Associate Professor, Columbia University, discusses the African Burial Ground.
Jan 21, 2008
African Burial Ground - Rodney Leon commentary
Rodney Leon, African Burial Ground Memorial architect, discusses the site.
Jan 21, 2008
African Burial Ground - Dowoti Desir commentary
Dowoti Desir, Executive Director of The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, discusses the African Burial Ground.
Jan 21, 2008
African Free School - description
135-137 Mulberry Street Soon after the Revolution, in 1785, a group of wealthy, powerful white men formed the New York Manumission Society. Although many were slave owners, their mission was to aid the enslaved, and to gradually end slavery in the state.
Jan 21, 2008
African Grove Theater - description
Mercer Street near Houston On Mercer Street in the fall of 1821, King Lear limped out onto stage and the audience went wild. Lear was black.
Jan 21, 2008
African Methodist Church moves to Harlem - Cynthia Copland commentary
African Methodist Church moves uptown to Harlem Commentary by Cynthia Copland
Jan 21, 2008
African Society for Mutual Relief - description
42 Baxter Street As soon as it was legal for black New Yorkers to organize, they did so. In 1808, the African Society for Mutual Relief was founded. (The Society may have met in secret earlier, but there are no records to prove it.)
Jan 21, 2008
Audubon Ballroom - description
3940 Broadway Best known as the place where Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, the Audubon Ballroom has long been a center of African American social and political activity.
Jan 21, 2008
Audubon Ballroom - Dowoti Desir commentary
Dowoti Desir, Executive Director of The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, discusses the Audubon Ballroom.
Jan 21, 2008
Bedford-Stuyvesant - description
Bedford-Stuyvesant, also known as Bed-Stuy, is home to the largest concentration of blacks in New York City and one of the largest in the country.
Jan 21, 2008
Bethel AME Church of Amityville - Lynda Day commentary
Bethel AME Church, Amityville The Bethel AME Church of Amityville was the first black church on Long Island. Daniel Squires and Delaney H. Miller organized the church in 1815, after founding the Sunday school one year earlier.In 1839, Elias and Fanny Hunter offered land on Albany Avenue to the congregation but it would take four more years for the church to call this home.
Jan 21, 2008
Bethel AME Church - description
Bethel AME Church, Amityville The Bethel AME Church of Amityville was the first black church on Long Island. Daniel Squires and Delaney H. Miller organized the church in 1815, after founding the Sunday school one year earlier.In 1839, Elias and Fanny Hunter offered land on Albany Avenue to the congregation but it would take four more years for the church to call this home.
Jan 21, 2008
Black Brigades - description
10 Church Street Blacks who fought with the British lived in “Negro barracks”. These men fought in units known as the Black Pioneers and the Black Brigade. Most did the hard support work the army needed, but some were armed and fought.
Jan 21, 2008
Booker T. Washington House - description
Booker T. Washington House Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856, and labored on the Burroughs tobacco farm in Virginia. Nine years later, he and his family were freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation and moved to West Virginia, where he worked in the salt mines while attending school.
Jan 21, 2008
Booker T. Washington House - Thelma Jackson-Abidally commentary
Fort Salonga, Huntington, Long Island Between the years 1911 and 1915, Booker T. Washington traveled from Alabama to Fort Salonga for rest and relief from the hottest months of the summer. Located on the north shore of Long Island in the Town of Huntington, Fort Salonga was a peaceful, scenic place for the Washington family to spend their vacations.
Jan 21, 2008
Bridge Street AWME Church - description
311 Bridge Street It was October 1865, only months after the last shots of the Civil War were fired. People in Brooklyn opened their newspaper, the Brooklyn Eagle, to learn that "Last evening an immense congregation, fully half consisting of whites, was present at the African M. E. Church in Bridge street."
Jan 21, 2008
Catherine Ferguson - description
51 Warren Street Catherine ("Katy") Ferguson was born in 1779 with almost nothing--not even freedom.
Jan 21, 2008
Colored Orphan Asylum - description
Fifth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets If you were black and orphaned in New York in the 1800s, there was nowhere to go but the cruel streets.
Jan 21, 2008
Colored Orphan Asylum - Kenneth Jackson commentary
Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University, discusses the Colored Orphan Asylum.
Jan 21, 2008
David Ruggles Home - description
67 Lispenard David Ruggles might have been the most hated activist of his day.
Jan 21, 2008
Downing's Oyster House - description
5 Broad Street Before New York was called the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster.
Jan 21, 2008
Duke Ellington - description
110th Street and 5th Avenue. Edward Kennedy Ellington (1899–1974), known as Duke Ellington, changed the sound of popular music in America and around the world.
Jan 21, 2008
Duke Ellington - Kellie Jones commentary
Kellie Jones, Associate Professor, Columbia University, discusses Duke Ellington.
Jan 21, 2008
Duke Ellington - Robert O'Meally commentary
Robert O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Columbia University, discusses Duke Ellington.
Jan 21, 2008
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