Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Day. Wait a sec, I don’t have off work until Monday. What gives? Well, today is his official born on date, January 15, 1929. He would have been 79. What should you do to celebrate, either today or Monday?
Today has already happened so there’s little wiggle room there. But [...]
Posts Tagged ‘African American History’
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Week: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site
Posted in National Historic Site, tagged African American History, Atlanta, Civil Rights, Georgia, Martin Luther King on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lincoln Memorial
Posted in National Memorial, tagged Abraham Lincoln, African American History, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, National Mall, Neo-Classical Architecture, Washington D.C. on July 14, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Part of National Mall and Memorial Parks
Washington, D.C.
Visited: July 14, 2006
NPS Site Visited: 308 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
The instantly recognizable white Georgia marble neo-Classical monument dedicated to our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.
BEAUTY (8/10)
At the National Mall western end, the Lincoln Memorial stands, a steadfast Greek Temple that emanates greatness and elicits reflexive, [...]
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged African American History, Education, Farm, Slavery, Tobacco, Virginia on November 1, 2005 | 3 Comments »
near Rocky Mount, Va.
Visited: November 1, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 278 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Site dedicated to Booker T. Washington, a man born into slavery in 1856, who became a major figure in turn of the century United States history. Washington is best known as the longtime president of Tuskegee Institute and intellectual [...]
George Washington Carver National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged African American History, Engineering, Farm, Missouri on September 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Diamond, Mo.
Visited: September 1, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 245 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
The birthplace and boyhood home of George Washington Carver, one of America’s greatest inventors and one of her most remarkable men.
BEAUTY (6/10)
The George Washington Carver National Monument landscape is calming, quiet and lends towards introspection. From the VC, the Carver Trail [...]
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Affiliated Site, African American History, Navy, Supreme Court, Tragedy, World War II on June 18, 2005 | 2 Comments »
near Concord, Calif.
Visited: June 18, 2005
NPS Site Visited: Not an Official Site
NPS Affiliate Site Visited: 10 of 26
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
Site of a July 17, 1944 ammunitions explosion that blew up two ships parked side-by-side on a loading pier and killed over 300 men. Port Chicago was the largest stateside disaster during World War II. [...]
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged African American History, Civil War, Coastal Fort, Fort, Georgia on February 3, 2005 | 2 Comments »
near Tybee Island, Ga.
Visited: February 3, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 143 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
One of 30 coastal forts built after the War of 1812 to protect the United States from foreign naval invasion. Fort Pulaski saw its only action early in 1861, during the start of the Civil War.
BEAUTY (6/10)
The pentagonal Fort Pulaski has [...]
Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve
Posted in National Preserves, tagged African American History, Florida, House Tour, Jacksonville, Mansion, Native American History on February 2, 2005 | 1 Comment »
near Jacksonville, Fla.
Visited: February 2, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 140 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
46,000 acres existing mostly of salt marshes that border the slow urban sprawl of greater Jacksonville. The historical part of the preserve consists of a Sea Island cotton plantation and scattered Timucuan Indian ruins.
BEAUTY (3/10)
The Preserve is that garbled part [...]
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Posted in National Historic Site, tagged African American History, Civil Rights, Kansas, School, Supreme Court, Topeka on August 4, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Topeka, Kans.
Visited: August 4, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 70 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
A museum that commemorates the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Supreme Court decision that made segregation in public schools illegal. The NHS is located in the Monroe Elementary building, the location of one of the five schools whose [...]
