NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
At the gift shop, you can pick up a kinara, a candleholder that represents African roots; it'll hold candles in the symbolic colors of black for the people, red for their struggle & green for hope, all to help you celebrate this late December holiday
Kwanzaa
This wedding tradition may have once had to do with sweeping away evil spirits & today symbolizes a new beginning
jumping the broom
Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal", yet, as seen from the names on the bricks, he was a major slaveholder, owning hundreds at this home & plantation in Virginia
Monticello
In 1956, he became the first Black entertainer to host a nationally broadcast TV variety show
Nat King Cole
Among Harriet Tubman's most treasured possessions was a lace shawl she received in recognition of her heroic efforts from this woman, who was celebrating her diamond jubilee
Queen Victoria
While Ebony is for the black community in general, this magazine launched in 1970 is geared especially to black women
Essence
"Our feet are tired, but our souls are rested", said Martin Luther King, & then soaked his feet in the bucket after leading thousands on a 5-day, 54-mile freedom march from Selma to the steps of the Capitol in this city
Montgomery
The first African-American combat pilots who served during World War II
Tuskegee Airmen
The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, "I, too, will die by violence"
Malcolm X
In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women
Spelman