You'll find it in churches...
Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia

• Martin Luther King Jr., National Historic Site
• National Register of Historic Places
• Historic American Buildings Survey documented
• Save America's Treasures grant
• We Shall Overcome, Discover Our Shared Heritage travel itinerary

You'll find it in churches...
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama

• National Historic Landmark
• Historic American Buildings Survey documentation
• Save America's Treasures grant
• We Shall Overcome, Discover Our Shared Heritage travel itinerary

And in schools ...
Central High School National Historic Site, Little Rock, Arkansas

• Central High School National Historic Site, Little Rock, Arkansas
• Save America's Treasures grant
• National Historic Landmark
• Teaching with Historic Places

In courtrooms...
Old Courthouse, St. Louis, Missouri

• Jefferson Expansion National Memorial
• National Register of Historic Places
• Historic American Buildings Survey documentation
• Teaching with Historic Places

And theaters...
Apollo Theatre, New York, New York

• Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit project
  
  

In the work of poets and artists...
Paul Laurence Dunbar House, Dayton, Ohio

• Paul Laurence Dunbar House, Dayton, Ohio
• National Historic Landmark

In the work of poets and artists...
Clementine Hunter

• Melrose Plantation, Cane River National Heritage Area, Louisiana
• Historic American Buildings Survey documentation
• Discover Our Shared Heritage travel itinerary

Dancers and musicians...
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Archives, Washington, DC

• Save America's Treasures grant
• National Register of Historic Places

Dancers and musicians...
Louis Armstrong House & Archives, New York

• National Historic Landmark
• Save America's Treasures grant

Scientists and doctors...
George Washington Carver National Monument, Missouri

• George Washington Carver National Monument, Missouri
• National Register of Historic Places

Scientists and doctors...
Dr. Manassa Pope, Raleigh , North Carolina

• National Register of Historic Places
• Teaching with Historic Places

And in a woman's hands.
Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, North Carolina /South

• Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, North Carolina/South Carolina/Georgia/Florida

You'll find it in homes grand...
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Washington , DC

• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Washington, DC
• National Register of Historic Places
• Historic American Buildings Survey documentation
• Aboard the Underground Railroad, Discover Our Shared Heritage travel itinerary

...and hidden
President's House

• Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia
• National Register of Historic Places
  

In the places where our nation called us to service...
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, Tuskegee, Alabama

• Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, Tuskegee, Alabama

In the places where our nation called us to service…
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, Danville, California

• Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, Danville, California
  

And the places where we called upon our nation to change
Lincoln Memorial

• National Mall and Memorial Parks, Washington, DC
• National Register of Historic Places
• Historic American Buildings Survey documentation
• We Shall Overcome, Discover Our Shared Heritage travel itinerary

And the places where we called upon our nation to change
Rosa Parks' Bus

• Save America's Treasures grant
  
  
  
  

You'll find it in communities across the nation...
New Philadelphia, Illinois

• National Historic Landmark
• National Register of Historic Places

And in America 's national parks...
Maggie Walker National Historic Site, Richmond, Virginia

• Maggie Walker National Historic Site, Richmond, Virginia
• Discover Our Shared Heritage travel itinerary

Including the White House

• President's Park, Washington, DC
• National Historic Landmark
• Historic American Buildings Survey documentation

African American History
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President Barack Obama
Inauguration Day
January 20, 2009

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was known as Harlem 's poet-laureate. His house on East 127th Street is listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places.