<input type="hidden" value="" data-essbisPostContainer="" data-essbisPostUrl="https://yodoozy.com/the-7-most-insightful-black-history-museums-in-the-us/" data-essbisPostTitle="The 7 Most Insightful Black History Museums In The US" data-essbisHoverContainer=""><div class="fr-view"><p><span style="font-family: Cabin, sans-serif;font-size: 17px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;float: none">Even though our world has always been naturally rich in races, it is only now that we have begun to appreciate the true beauty in diversity. As times change and the world gets more acceptable and accessible, we desire to explore its varied communities and culture. And one of the reasons for this is the ever-growing realization through right education. Learning to deconstruct social norms is how we move forward. Today, we bring to you the 7 most culturally rich Black history museums in the US. Visiting even one of these Black history museums is not only entertaining &ndash; the lives of those who were will always leave us thinking &ndash; it is an excursion, an exposition. So let&#039;s acquaint ourselves with the best African-American history and culture museums in the US.</span></p>
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						<span class="zfNum">1</span>Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond 					</h3>
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						<p><span style="font-family: Cabin, sans-serif;font-size: 17px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;float: none">With interactive multimedia displays, including many developed particularly for youngsters, this contemporary museum in the historic Confederate capital places equal emphasis on intergenerational education. A historic Woolworth's sign atop an exhibit commemorating sit-ins in Virginia and across the South, while the museum's second floor is filled with both visiting exhibitions and the works of local artists.</span></p>				</li>
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						<span class="zfNum">2</span>The Jack Hadley Black History Museum, Thomasville					</h3>
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							<img width="800" height="600" src="https://yodoozy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220526_155824_800x600-1.jpg" class="" alt="" style="" srcset="https://yodoozy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220526_155824_800x600-1.jpg 800w, https://yodoozy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220526_155824_800x600-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://yodoozy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220526_155824_800x600-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://yodoozy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220526_155824_800x600-1-320x240.jpg 320w, https://yodoozy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220526_155824_800x600-1-200x150.jpg 200w, https://yodoozy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220526_155824_800x600-1-360x270.jpg 360w, https://yodoozy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220526_155824_800x600-1-545x409.jpg 545w, https://yodoozy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220526_155824_800x600-1-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" />								<figcaption class="zfCaption">
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						<p><span style="font-family: Cabin, sans-serif;font-size: 17px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;float: none">Hadley's passion for preserving Black culture began while serving in the United States Air Force while stationed overseas with his family. When he returned home, he began sharing his expertise by leading Black history walking tours, and in 2006, he created the museum. The Jack Hadley museum boasts artifacts and memorables that display Arican-American history and achievements.</span></p>				</li>
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						<span class="zfNum">3</span>National Memorial for Peace &; Justice, Montgomery 					</h3>
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						<p><span style="font-family: Cabin, sans-serif;font-size: 17px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;float: none">This is the nation's first memorial honoring the heritage of enslaved black people and individuals frightened by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow laws, and people of color burdened by modern presumptions of guilt and police violence.</span></p>				</li>
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						<span class="zfNum">4</span>Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham 					</h3>
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						<p><span style="font-family: Arial;font-size: 14.6667px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;float: none">The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a member of the Smithsonian Affiliations program, which provides it with long-term loans and touring exhibitions from the nation's most prestigious museum collections. One of the museum's most popular exhibitions, with a strong concentration on the Civil Rights Movement, is The Oral History Project, which archives and displays the voices of people who lived the reality of the event.</span></p>				</li>
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						<span class="zfNum">5</span>The King Center, Atlanta 					</h3>
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						<p><span style="font-family: Arial;font-size: 14.6667px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;float: none">The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change is a historic site in Atlanta that contains King's birth home, Dr. King and Coretta Scott King's monument, and the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where MLK preached from 1960 until his death in 1968. A bookshop, a resource center, and Freedom Hall, which acts as an exhibition gallery and houses works of art from across the world, are also on campus.</span></p>				</li>
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						<span class="zfNum">6</span>National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, Selma 					</h3>
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						<p><span style="font-family: Cabin, sans-serif;font-size: 17px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;float: none">The Voting Rights Museum and Institute displays artifact's and tales recounting the Voting Rights Campaign that had surged in Alabama. The Voting Rights Act was signed in August of 1965. Earlier during March of the same year, the Bloody Sunday attack, as an opposition to the civil rights demonstration, had left more than a dozen marchers injured. The tour guides at the museum recount first-person encounters of these two events, and the time in between.</span></p>				</li>
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						<span class="zfNum">7</span>Museum of African American History					</h3>
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						<p>The Museum of African American History is not only New England's largest African American history and culture museum, but its exhibits are housed in two renovated, adjoining buildings with its own records: The African Meeting House is the country's oldest Black church structure, while the Abiel Smith School is the country's oldest Black public school building. The emphasis here is largely on the lives and experiences of African New Englanders, with an emphasis nearly entirely on the history of the buildings themselves, but there are additional rotating exhibitions above.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;font-family: Cabin, sans-serif;font-size: 17px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none">These were the 7 Black history museums in the US that you need to visit over the weekend to delve in the rich African-American history and culture.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;font-family: Cabin, sans-serif;font-size: 17px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none"><em style="font-style: italic"><strong style="font-weight: 700">Liked knowing about these Black history museums? You'll also like reading about ;</strong><a href="https://yodoozy.com/where-did-the-british-museum-get-its-artefacts/" style="cursor: pointer;text-decoration: none"><strong style="font-weight: 700">the true way the British museum got Its artifacts.</strong></a></em></p>				</li>
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