Michigan Street's Heritage
This historic Buffalo church, founded in 1836, was a major stop on the Underground Railroad.
What is the Michigan Street Baptist Church?
This 20th-century civil rights movement helped push for integration and equality, and leaders from Buffalo’s East Side played important roles.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This Buffalo church, a stop on the Underground Railroad, is the oldest African American church in the city.
What is the Michigan Street Baptist Church?
This African American leader, pastor, and Underground Railroad conductor once lived at 36 Nash Street.
Who is Rev. J. Edward Nash Sr.?
He was a prominent African American abolitionist, pastor, and Underground Railroad conductor who helped build the Michigan Street Baptist Church.
Who is Rev. J. Edward Nash?
This street, now the center of a heritage corridor, was once the heart of Buffalo’s Black community.
What is Michigan Avenue (or Michigan Street)?
This restored 1849 home of a Buffalo Underground Railroad conductor is located within the Corridor.
What is the Nash House Museum?
This famous abolitionist and orator spoke at churches within the Corridor in the 19th century.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This corridor celebrates African American cultural and historical contributions and includes the Nash House, the Colored Musicians Club, and this church.
What is the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor?
The Colored Musicians Club was affiliated with this union, once known as Local 533.
What is the Buffalo Musicians Union (AFM Local 533)?
The corridor includes this cultural organization that preserves and promotes African American musical history and heritage through live concerts, education, and a future exhibition
What is the Colored Musicians Club?
This Buffalo musician was one of the first Black musicians to gain national recognition and was associated with the Colored Musicians Club.
Who is James "Pappy" Martin?
This museum and cultural hub on Broadway in Buffalo celebrates the rich history of Black musicians in the city.
What is the Colored Musicians Club?
This local corridor project aims to revitalize and preserve the historic African American sites of Buffalo.
What is the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission, or The Commission?
This Corridor site once hosted prominent speakers like Frederick Douglass and was pivotal in the fight against slavery.
What is the Michigan Street Baptist Church?
This civil rights activist worked to preserve Buffalo's African American history and helped found the Nash House Museum.
Who is Mary Burnett Talbert?
The Nash House Museum preserves the legacy of this civil rights leader who lived in the house for over 50 years.
Who is Rev. J. Edward Nash Sr.?
Many people visited the Michigan Street Baptist Church as part of this secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This landmark, located at the corner of Michigan Avenue and East Ferry Street in Buffalo, New York, is a mural depicting twenty-eight civil rights leaders active anytime from the 19th to the 21st centuries
What is the Freedom Wall
This man was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?