This exhibit traces the indelible imprint African Americans have made on America. Their stories – some familiar, many surprising – are inseparable from the story of America itself. An interactive area allows visitors to leave their own video “imprints,” a collection that will grow throughout the tour with the potential to become the...
Am I Not a Woman and A Sister
Am I Not A Woman And A Sister glass embossing seal by unidentified artist after Josiah Wedgwood, 19th century? Anti-slavery coins and emblems like this, most often of a male...
Read MoreDungeon doors from Cape Coast Castle
Dungeon doors from Cape Coast Castle, where captive Africans were housed under lock and key, sometimes for months at a time, awaiting ships that would take them to the New World....
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Jail Cell Door Key from the Birmingham cell where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was held following the 1963 Birmingham campaigns. His Letter from Birmingham Jail was authored from...
Read MoreRosa Parks Fingerprint Card
Rosa Parks Fingerprint Card In 1955, Rosa Parks was riding on a crowded bus in Montgomery, Alabama. when she refused to give up her seat to a white man, the bus driver had her...
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