Herbert S. Ford Memorial Museum
Homer, Louisiana | The museum houses a fascinating collection of memorabilia and artifacts from the north Louisiana hill country, including Civil War...
James A. Fields House
James A. Fields was born into slavery in Hanover County, Virginia in 1844. During the Civil War, Fields and his brother George escaped to Hampton...
Cudjo’s Cave
The Friendsville Friends Meeting that gathers here weekly has a history that includes assisting self-emancipated African Americans escape to freedom...
Landon Boyd
Landon Boyd, an African American brick mason born into slavery, who served on the petit jury for the U.S. District Court in Richmond empanelled to try...
Henry Box Brown
Born into slavery about 1815 at The Hermitage Plantation near here, Henry Brown was working in Richmond by 1830. Brown mailed himself to Philadelphia...
Lynching of Wyatt Outlaw & the “Kirk-Holden War”
The life of Wyatt Outlaw — cut short by a Ku Klux Klan-led mob on the Alamance Courthouse Square in 1870 — illustrates the initial promise and tragic...