Take Our Black History Tour

Historic sites that honor Black history year-round.

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16th Street Baptist Church - 1530 Sixth Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama On the morning of Sept. 15, 1963, four Ku Klux Klansmen planted a bomb near the basement of the church, where children were preparing for Sunday service. Addie Mae Collins, 14, Denise McNair, 11, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14, perished in the attack and 22 others were injured. Today, worship services are still held at the church. (Photo: Wikicommons)
Harriet Tubman’s Home - 180 South Street, Auburn, New York Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist leader who guided hundreds of slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad, lived out the remainder of her life in Auburn, New York, where she opened a home to care for elderly former slaves. The site is now a historical landmark operated and owned by the A.M.E. Zion Church. (Photo: Courtesy harriethouse.org)Uncle Tom’s Cabin - 29251 Uncle Toms Rd.  Dresden, Ontario, Canada Rev. Josiah Henson, an escaped slave who would become the inspiration behind Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, set up a school for former slaves in Ontario, Canada, the final destination for many slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad. The Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site includes Henson's home, a church, a museum, theater and cemetery. (Photo: Courtesy Heritage Trust)

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Woolworth’s Lunch Counter - BET.com gives you a look at historic sites that celebrate Black History all year long. — Britt Middleton 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. In February 1960, four African-American college students staged a six-month sit-in after they were refused service at the “whites only” lunch counter of a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their protest would spark others like it around the country. You can see remnants of the original Woolworth's counter at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Wikicommons)

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