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Historic Hampton House
Miami's last surviving Green Book-listed motel; restored as a community museum.
Miami, FL, USA
Stax Records Museum
Memphis museum on the original Stax studio site, the home of Southern soul.
Memphis, TN, USA
Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum
Memphis house museum at a documented Underground Railroad stop.
Memphis, TN, USA
National Civil Rights Museum (Lorraine Motel)
Memphis motel where MLK Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 — now a museum walking visitors through the entire Black freedom struggle.
Memphis, TN, USA
Withers Collection Museum
Memphis museum dedicated to photographer Ernest C. Withers — the Eye of the Civil Rights Movement.
Memphis, TN, USA
Mason Temple Church of God in Christ
Memphis church where MLK Jr. gave his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech on April 3, 1968 — the night before his assassination.
Memphis, TN, USA
Sun Studio
Memphis recording studio where B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Junior Parker, and Elvis Presley all recorded.
Memphis, TN, USA
Beale Street
Memphis blues-and-soul corridor that incubated B.B. King, W.C. Handy, Aretha Franklin, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
Memphis, TN, USA
Watts Towers
Folk-art landmark in the historic Black Watts neighborhood of South LA.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
California African American Museum
State museum dedicated to African American history, art, and culture; in Exposition Park, LA.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mosaic Templars Cultural Center
Little Rock museum celebrating Black history in Arkansas.
Little Rock, AR, USA
Bays Mountain Park
Kingsport, TN park with a self-guided Underground Railroad heritage trail.
Kingsport, TN, USA
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Kansas City museum honoring the Negro National League and the Negro American League.
Kansas City, MO, USA
Smith Robertson Museum
Jackson, MS museum on the site of the first public school for Black children in the city.
Jackson, MS, USA
Madame Walker Legacy Center
Indianapolis Art Deco theatre tied to Madam C.J. Walker's industrial empire.
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Hardy, VA site of Washington's birthplace plantation.
Hardy, VA, USA
Hampton University
Virginia HBCU founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to educate freed slaves.
Hampton, VA, USA
International Civil Rights Center & Museum
Greensboro museum at the site of the 1960 Woolworth's lunch-counter sit-ins.
Greensboro, NC, USA
NC A&T State University
Greensboro HBCU; the largest historically Black university by enrollment.
Greensboro, NC, USA
Lewis H. Latimer House
Queens museum at the home of inventor Lewis Latimer.
Flushing, NY, USA
Robert Russa Moton Museum (Farmville)
National Historic Landmark and museum at the site of the 1951 student strike that led to Brown v. Board.
Farmville, VA, USA
Robert Russa Moton Museum
Farmville, VA museum at the site of the 1951 Barbara Johns student strike that led to Brown v. Board.
Farmville, VA, USA
Whitney Plantation
Louisiana plantation museum centered on the enslaved — the only one in the US that tells history from the captives' perspective.
Edgard, LA, USA
Eatonville Historic District
Florida town founded 1887 — the first incorporated all-Black town in the US.
Eatonville, FL, USA