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An African American Civil Rights Network member. As a movement leader for the Birmingham Campaign, A.D. King was at the forefront of every major civil rights event in Birmingham in 1963, This was a crucial year in the civil rights struggle as the city’s black community began a massive direct-action campaign to attack Birmingham’s system of segregation. King's family home was severely damaged when two bombs were detonated outside during an assassination attempt.

The Ballard-Hamilton House and Office in Birmingham, Alabama is a cultural space dedicated to honoring the heritage, voices, and contributions of Birmingham's African American community from the city's founding to and through the African American Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham.

Both the building and the members of Brown Chapel AME Church played pivotal roles in the Selma, Alabama, marches that helped lead to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The starting point for the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, Brown Chapel also hosted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) for the first three months of 1965.

The Freedom Riders National Monument is located in Anniston, Alabama. It was established in 2017 to commemorate the 1961 Freedom Rides during the African American Civil Rights movement. The monument is managed by the National Park Service.

Glenwood Cemetery, and African American Civil Rights Network member, is an African American cemetery located in Alabama that replaced the original slave cemetery, known as “Georgia.” The cemetery was established in 1870 by the City of Huntsville. As a significant historical property, Glenwood represents the transition of Black lives from slavery to freedom.

Lincoln Normal School, located in Marion, Alabama, was among the first schools established for the education of freedmen after the U.S. Civil War.

The Lowndesboro School Museum and Regional Technology Center in Lowndes County, Alabama is housed in the former Lowndesboro School, a Reconstruction-era school for African Americans.

The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture is located on the campus of Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama is a research institute and repository for the collection of civil rights and African American cultural documents, artifacts, and other memorabilia. The collection encompasses and allows for the study of the interdisciplinary, diverse, and disparate character of civil rights and African American culture.

The Perry County Courthouse began construction in 1844 and was completed in 1855. In the mid-1960s, civil rights demonstrations outside the courthouse helped to shape the course of the modern civil rights movement in the U.S.

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which extended equal voting rights for African-Americans. As both White and Black non-violent supporters led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for the right to vote in Central Alabama, today, you can trace their march toward freedom on the 54-mile trail and connect with their stories at the Interpretive Centers.

Little Rock Central High School is a powerful reminder of racial segregation in the United States and of the courage required to integrate the nation's public schools. . Today, visitors can tour a key site in the struggle for racial equality to learn about the “Little Rock Nine” and the extraordinary story of what it took to integrate Little Rock Central High School and desegregate public education in the United States.

When the eastern Mojave Desert was opened to homesteading in 1910, Lanfair Valley became the focus of a visionary group of African American entrepreneurs and clergy in Los Angeles who were determined to establish agricultural and mining colonies in this desert settlement. These homesteads are the stories of friends and family who came to Lanfair Valley to escape oppression and bigotry, and to claim land that with work could become land of their own.

Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial honors those who lost their lives in the explosion and tells the story of what happened there and the fateful events that followed, which played a role in the racial desegregation of the American military.

The San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art in San Diego, California was established to preserve and present the art of African Americans globally and to broaden the knowledge and understanding of the visual arts in Southern California and the city of San Diego.

Located in Los Angeles, California, the Second Baptist Church played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement. Designed by renowned African American architect, Paul R. Williams, the church was the largest meeting space owned by the African American community in the western United States in the era before World War II.

The West Oakland Mural Project (WOMP) is a mural, museum, and community center in Oakland, California dedicated to educating visitors about the Black Panther Party and their many community programs.

The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library is home to a museum and research collection devoted to the African American experience in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West.

The Barry Farm community became a hub for civil rights activism in the 1950s-60s. Organizing by Barry Farm residents led to Bolling v. Sharpe, a companion case to Brown v. Board of Education that required the desegregation of Washington, D.C. public schools. Barry Farm residents Etta Horn and Lillian Wright organized a tenants’ council with the support of President Johnson’s War on Poverty program.

Carter G. Woodson’s best-known contribution occurs every February. He initiated celebration of the first Negro History Week in 1926, focusing on black history. Woodson chose the second week of February for Negro History Week because it corresponds with the birthdays of both Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Over the years, support grew, and the week became a month in 1976. February of each year is now Black History Month.

Lincoln Memorial National Memorial not only honors Lincoln, but its design and its use by Americans over the years have made it a symbol of America’s democratic principles and beliefs. It is fitting that the memorial has been the site of some of the nation's most stirring civil rights demonstrations and events.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is in Washington, DC along the west side of the Tidal Basin and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The memorial honors his legacy and the struggle for freedom, equality, and civil rights with themes of justice, democracy, hope, and love.

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House. African American Civil Rights Network

American artist, Mitchell Jamieson, captures the monumental nature of African-American opera singer Marian Anderson's 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial in his mural "An Incident in Contemporary American Life."

Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice, and the Murder of Emmett Till was a one-object exhibition of a defaced historic marker that stood at the site where Emmett Till’s body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. The exhibit shared Till’s legacy with a focus on the local Mississippi story. It was on display at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. from April to September 2024.

The African American Cultural Center and Museum of Florida's goal is to raise awareness of the African American experience and heritage in Flagler County and Florida through educational, artistic, intellectual, and social activities and services for the entire community.

Bethel Baptist Institutional Church (Bethel Baptist Church) is the oldest Baptist congregation in Jacksonville, Florida.

Castillo de San Marcos stands today as a monument to the Spanish empire’s 300-year occupation of Florida and to the interaction and clashes of cultural groups that built the unified nation that is the United States today.

The Civil Rights Institute (CRI) at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida commemorates, celebrates, and studies the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to promote justice and equality at Florida State and in local communities.

James Weldon Johnson Park (formerly Hemmings Plaza) is located in Jacksonville Florida and commemorates "Ax Handle Saturday," which occurred on August 27, 1960.

The Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center is an African American history museum located in the Lincolnville neighborhood of Saint Augustine, Florida.

Lugares Históricos, a program of the Orlando, Florida-based Puerto Rican Organization for the Performing Arts (PROPA), identifies, celebrates, and demarcates historical sites associated with African-descended peoples in Puerto Rico.

Masjid al-Ansar, located in Miami Florida, was established in the 1960s by the Nation of Islam community. The mosque’s current location was purchased in 1966. It was the first extant mosque in the state of Florida.

The Sarasota African American Cultural Coalition was developed to showcase the accomplishments of trailblazing pioneers who built Sarasota’s infrastructure.

The Copeland African American Museum is located on the campus of Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. The museum’s collection spans more than 150 years and tells the rich and diverse history of African Americans in the wider region.

Historic West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia is a stone sanctuary that formerly housed West Hunter Street Baptist Church. The congregation of West Hunter Street Baptist has a long history of civil rights activism in the city. Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, a confidante of Martin Luther King Jr, led the congregation and pastored in the building.

The Jack Hadley Black History Museum, located in Thomasville, Georgia, was founded in 1995, to educate visitors to Thomasville about the history and culture of the African American community locally and nationally.

The park’s mission is to preserve, protect, and interpret the places where Martin Luther King, Jr. was born, where he lived, worked, worshipped, and is buried.

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is a museum and human rights organization dedicated to the achievements of the African American Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the broader worldwide human rights movement.

Founded in the 1880s, Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia, has been an important community institution since its founding. It played an active role in the modern civil rights movement in the city.

The Walker County African American Historical and Alumni Association in Chickamauga, Georgia, was founded in 2000 to preserve and document the Appalachian African American history of Walker County, Georgia.

The 1908 Springfield Race Riot were events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans and European immigrants in Springfield, Illinois, between August 14 and 16, 1908. The events led to the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) one year later.

The Muddy Waters MOJO Museum in Chicago, Illinois is actively working to preserve Muddy Water’s house, a Chicago Landmark, and to create a museum honoring the musical style known as “the blues”.

The Landmark for Peace is a memorial sculpture in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Indianapolis, Indiana. It commemorates the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated months apart in 1968.

On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka unanimously ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. This was a major turning point in the fight for public school desegregation.

The Payne-Dunnigan House was built for Ruby Payne, a domestic servant and sister-in-law of Alice Dunnigan during the 1940s. Alice Allison Dunnigan was a noted African American journalist and author who became the first African American woman to receive credentials to attend news briefings at the White House and report on the United States president and White House events. Dunnigan lived in the home during her visits to Russellville between 1942 and her death in 1983.

The Southgate Street School in Newport, Kentucky opened in 1873 and taught African American children from the first through the eighth grade. Between 1901-1921 the school also offered a three-year high school study course. In 1955, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Newport desegregated its schools. The city closed the Southgate Street School.

Alexander Pierre Tureaud, Sr. was a preeminent civil rights attorney in Louisiana during Jim Crow era. In his capacity as legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for more than three decades Tureaud helped to desegregate New Orleans' public school system and public accommodations.

Founded in 2009, the Leona Tate Foundation for Change advances the legacy of Ms. Leona Tate, who helped desegregate a white school in the New Orleans Public School District in 1960. The foundation has dedicated itself to providing equal access educational opportunities for youth in New Orleans, and creating an interpretive space in which to teach New Orleans’ rich civil rights history.

Old Galilee Baptist Church, located in Shreveport, Louisiana, was built in 1877 by formerly enslaved African Americans. At one time the church was the main hub for the African American Civil Rights movement in Shreveport and served as a non-violent meeting place for adults and children.

The West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen, Louisiana was founded by the West Baton Rouge Historical Association in 1968. The two organizations have worked together for over half a century to preserve the history and cultural heritage of the region.

The African American Resources Cultural and Heritage Society, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization incorporated in 2009, celebrates the rich contributions and history of African Americans in the city and county of Frederick, Maryland.

The Banneker-Douglass Museum, named for Benjamin Banneker and Frederick Douglass, is the State of Maryland’s official museum of African American heritage and culture and is dedicated to preserving the history of Maryland's African American community.

The Peale Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, is the oldest museum building in the United States and Baltimore’s community museum. In the late 1800s, the building housed a primary school, grammar school, and high school for African Americans.

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture is the largest African American museum in Maryland. A Smithsonian Affiliate, the Lewis Museum is the state’s central repository for the historical, cultural, and artistic documents, objects, and artifacts that tell the story of African Americans in Maryland.

The Robbins House is a 544 sq. ft. historic early 19th century house formerly inhabited by the first generation of descendants of formerly enslaved African American Revolutionary War veteran Caesar Robbins. The outside interior of the home is yellow, and there are 4 windows on the front of the home.

The mission of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center is to educate the public about the life and legacy of civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois and the rich African American heritage of Massachusetts’ Berkshires region.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (The Wright) is located in Detroit, Michigan. It features several exhibitions, houses thousands of artifacts and archival materials, and is home to several collections. The Wright also sponsors film series, lectures, book events, workshops, performances, and other special events. The museum's "And Still We Rise" exhibit is one of the longest-running exhibitions in the U.S. dedicated to African American history.

In 1963, COFO made 1017 John R. Lynch Street its home, and this office served as the state headquarters for the modern Mississippi civil rights movement. Making voter registration and education a top priority for the Mississippi movement, COFO was instrumental in organizing the 1963 Freedom Vote, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, better known as Freedom Summer.

The Civil Rights Movement Archive is a non-commercial, educational website owned and administered by Bruce Hartford in San Francisco and hosted by Tougaloo College in Jackson MS. The site and its content was created by civil rights workers active in CORE, NAACP, SCLC, SNCC and similar Southern Freedom Movement organizations during the 1950s and 1960s.

The Margaret Walker Center (MWC) at Jackson State University is an archive and museum dedicated to African American history and culture. Founded as the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People by the writer and scholar Margaret Walker while she was on the faculty at then Jackson State College in 1968, the MWC stood at the forefront of the Black Studies movement, which itself evolved from the demands of civil rights and Black Power activists.

The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home is a national monument in Jackson, Mississippi commemorating the lives of these two important civil rights figures.

The Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area is known as the Birthplace of the Modern Civil Rights Movement. The 1955 lynching of 14 year old Emmett Till is considered to be the spark the lit the fuse of the Movement. The Mississippi Delta also was the home of several Civil Rights activists including Dr. TRM Howard, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Vera Mae Pigee, Aaron Henry, and Medgar and Myrlie Evers.

Piney Woods Country Life School is a private, historically Black coeducational boarding school located in Rankin County, Mississippi. The oldest of four of historically Black boarding schools still in operation in the United States, it serves students in grades 9 through 12. Piney Wood's sprawling campus is nestled within nearly 800 acres of piney hills approximately 20 miles south of Jackson.

The Riverside Hotel African American Historic Preservation Center in Clarksdale, Missouri has been called the place “where blues gave birth to rock and roll”. The original structure served as the G.T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital.

The Utica Institute Museum is located on the historic Utica Campus of Hinds Community College in Utica, Mississippi. The Museum tells the story of Southern Black Education in rural Mississippi and the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute. The Utica Institute Museum, in partnership with the William Holtzclaw Library, houses the Utica Institute Archives and the Utica Oral History Center.

Benton Avenue African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, located in Springfield Missouri, was indirectly related to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark civil rights case, Brown v. Board of Education.

The Harrison School, located in Tipton Missouri, is the last remaining 19th-century school building in Moniteau County built specifically for black students.

This modest, two-story masonry residence built in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 is associated with an African American family's struggle for justice that had a profound effect on American society.

Mount Peace Cemetery is an African American cemetery in the historically black borough of Lawnside, New Jersey. Established in the early 1900s, the cemetery is the final resting place for thousands of African American women, men, and children.

The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence in Albany County, New York was the mid-1850s office of the Vigilance Committee of Albany. This group, composed of Black abolitionists, was active in the underground railroad from the early 1840s up into the Civil War and assisted hundreds of freedom seekers in their pursuit of freedom in the northern United States and Canada.

The Michigan Street Baptist Church, located in Buffalo, New York, was built by African Americans in 1845, and became the center of community life for Buffalo's growing African American community. Many of the people associated with the church had escaped from slavery and the building served as a meeting place for members of anti-slavery and reform movements.

Sanctuary Spaces’ Black Brooklyn 1937-1968 project connects the dimensions of art, archive, culture, community, media and technology for inter-generational audiences and promotes Brooklyn’s African American history and culture.

The mission of the Burnett-Eaton Museum Foundation is to educate the public about the history, arts, and culture of the Wilmington region. The museum, the only one in Wilmington dedicated to African American history, displays items, photographs, documents, letters, and artifacts detailing the history of African Americans and others in the Wilmington area.

The Magnolia House is a bed and breakfast in Greensboro, North Carolina. When it opened in the mid-1900s it was one of a few boarding places in the area that catered to African American travelers. It was listed in the “Green Book” and hosted many prominent African Americans. It became a popular stop for leading African American athletes, entertainers, writers, and scholars. It also served as a meeting place for activists during the modern civil rights movement.

The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in Durham, North Carolina works to increase engagement across divisions such as race, class, sexual orientation and gender identity, and spiritual practice to address enduring inequities and injustice in our local, national, and global communities. The center operates from the childhood home of Pauli Murray, a civil rights activist, lawyer, educator, writer, and minister.

Princeton Graded School is a Rosenwald School in Johnston County, North Carolina. Constructed in 1925, the school served African American grade-school children until it closed in 1965. Although 10 Rosenwald Schools were constructed in Johnston County, Princeton Graded School is just one of two schools that still stands.

Shaw University is a historically Black university located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1865 Shaw was the first institution of higher education for African Americans in the southern United States.

The Stagville Descendants Council helps to preserve and share the history of Stagville, a former plantation in Durham, North Carolina, including narratives of its enslaved African population and African American descendants, and their contributions to American society.

The Stagville Memorial Project in Durham, North Carolina seeks to bring lesser-known histories about formerly enslaved people at Stagville Plantation and their descendants to wider audiences through history exhibitions, programming, and public art.

The African American Cultural Garden in Cleveland, Ohio celebrates the heritage and achievement of African Americans. The four-acre site is situated within the Cultural Gardens of the city's Rockefeller Park. It features greenspace and a monument.

Cory United Methodist, in Cleveland, Ohio, grew to become one of the largest African American churches in the country. It was an important community center in its neighborhood. It also hosted national African American leaders and was heavily involved in local civil rights organizing.

Wilson Bruce Evans was a freeborn African American abolitionist and underground railroad operative.

The John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park memorializes the history of African Americans in Oklahoma, including the lives lost at the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

The Oklahoma Indian Territory Museum of Black Creek Freedmen History is operated by the descendants of Creek Indian Freedmen (Black Creeks). The Museum has an extensive collection that travels throughout the world and aims to educate and guide visitors on a journey back in time to the days of the Indian Territory in the United States.

Racing to Change is a virtual exhibition created and hosted by Oregon Black Pioneers, Oregon's only statewide African American historical society. The exhibit illuminates the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s - early 1980s, a time of cultural and social upheaval, conflict, and change in Oregon.

Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia preserves the buildings, stories, and memory of the people who struggled and continue to struggle to create a nation based on the ideals of liberty and equality.

An African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN) member, the 20th Century African Heritage Civil Rights in Rhode Island is a web-based lesson plan program for K-12 students learning about the history of African American Civil Rights in the State of Rhode Island.

All Star Bowling Lane--Orangeburg, South Carolina's only bowling alley--played a pivotal role in the February 8, 1968, "Orangeburg Massacre" on the campus of South Carolina State College.

The Brookland-Lakeview Empowerment Center in West Columbia, South Carolina works to educate and empower youth, teens, families, and senior citizens. Located in a formerly segregated African American school, the center is also preserving the school’s history.

Established in November 2015 as a joint initiative of the College of Arts and Sciences and University Libraries, the Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina is dedicated to documenting the contributions of the Palmetto State to the American Civil Rights Movement.

Charlie’s Place, located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, served as a supper club and a bustling pillar of business for Black Americans from the 1930s through the 1960s. Black entrepreneur Charlie Fitzgerald and his wife Sarah opened the club in 1937, and it quickly became a popular stop along the “Chitlin Circuit" during the Jim Crow era.

The Clemson Area African American Museum (CAAAM), in Clemson, South Carolina, is a leading cultural institution in the city and the only museum in Pickens County, South Carolina devoted to African American history. The museum is in the former Calhoun Colored School, which served African American elementary school students in Clemson between 1949 and the 1970s.

The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture is located in Charleston, South Carolina on the campus of the City of Charleston. The Center occupies the former Avery Normal Institute building, Charleston's first accredited secondary (high) school for African Americans.

The Echo Theater in Laurens, South Carolina is an education center, museum, and multi-use community space. The theater is a project of The Echo Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to standing against hatred, addressing racial inequality, and healing racial division.

South Carolina built over 700 modern schools for African American students in the 1950s and 1960s to avoid desegregating its school systems.

Frissell Hall located in Gullah/Geechee NHC, SC.

The Harden Street Substation is significant for its strong association with segregation in Columbia. Its construction and the subsequent desegregation of the Columbia Fire Department were evidence of gradual racial change, the direct result of African American political organizing, civil rights litigation, and direct action protest throughout the 1940s and 1950s.

Griggs Business and Practical Arts College was a business and vocational school in Memphis, Tennessee founded by Emma J. Griggs. The school offered secondary training to Black students during a period when African Americans’ educational opportunities were limited.

On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated here at the Lorraine Hotel, just a day after giving his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech at the Mason Temple Church of God in Christ.

The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to preserving African American music traditions and celebrating the central role African Americans have played in shaping American music. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, the museum highlights how African Americans have developed and shaped more than 50 genres and subgenres of music, from Blues and Jazz to Hip Hop and R&B.

Buffalo Soldiers National Museum (BSNM) is the nation’s largest museum dedicated solely to exploring and displaying the stories and contributions of African Americans in the U.S. military and contains the largest private collection of African American military memorabilia.

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park is located in Stonewall, Texas about 50 miles west of Austin. The Park protects the birthplace, home, ranch, and final resting place of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States who is most well-know for the civil rights legislation passed during his administration.

The Museum of Undertold Texas History (MOUTH), located in Houston, Texas, documents the lives and achievements of African Americans throughout the history of Texas.

The National Juneteenth Museum (NJM) seeks to preserve histories of Juneteenth and connect the stories of freedom of the enslaved to modern day liberation in daily pursuit of equity and justice.

The Contrabands & Freedmen Cemetery served as the burial place for about 1,800 African Americans who fled to Alexandria to escape from bondage during the Civil War. A Memorial opened in 2014 on the site of the cemetery, to honor the memory of the Freedmen, the hardships they faced, and their contributions to the City of Alexandria, Virginia.

River View Farm in Albemarle County, Virginia is a surviving example of a historically African American community in the region. The farm has roots that stretch to emancipation and is representative of African Americans’ efforts to acquire property following the Civil War.

America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded by lynching survivor James Cameron, explores African American history, and seeks to foster reconciliation and healing.

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) was founded in 1915 by Carter G. Woodson, Alexander L. Jackson, William B. Hartgrove, George Cleveland Hall, and James E. Stamps as the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Renamed in 1973, ASALH is both the oldest and the largest historical society in the United States for the promotion and study of African American life, history, and culture.

The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) is a nonprofit organization, established in the late 1970s as the sole representative and voice of the African American 'Museums Movement.

The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is an American literary nonprofit organization that supports the development and careers of African American writers. The Foundation provides classes, workshops, an annual conference, and offers the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the North Star Award, among others.

PEN OR PENCIL (POP™) is a 12-month culturally-based academic and mentoring enhancement curriculum created by the National Alliance of Faith and Justice (NAFJ).

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) is a series of lesson plans and place-based learning resources produced by the National Park Service. Teaching with Historic Places is managed by the CR Office of Interpretation and Education, part of Tribal Relations and American Cultures in the Cultural Resources, Partnerships, and Science Directorate of the National Park Service. It is based in Washington, DC.

An African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN) member, the Civil Rights Travel Itinerary includes properties related to the U.S. African American Civil Rights Movement (post WWII-1968).