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Freedom House Ambulance Service began in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1967. It was created to serve the Hill District, a predominantly Black neighborhood where many residents did not receive the same emergency medical ca...

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Before Central Park became one of the most famous parks in the world, part of that land was home to Seneca Village, a thriving community in New York City. Founded in 1825, Seneca Village was located on what is now the we...

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Mound Bayou, Mississippi is one of the most important historic Black towns in America. Founded in 1887 by Isaiah T. Montgomery and Benjamin T. Green, both formerly enslaved men, Mound Bayou was built as a place where Bla...

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Denmark Vesey was a formerly enslaved man, carpenter, church leader, and freedom fighter in Charleston, South Carolina. After winning a lottery, he purchased his freedom in 1800 and became a respected member of Charlesto...

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Tremé is one of the most important Black neighborhoods in America. Located just north of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana, Tremé is often recognized as the oldest African American neighborhood in the United S...

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Nicodemus, Kansas is one of the most important Black settlements in American history. Founded in 1877 by formerly enslaved African Americans, Nicodemus became a place where Black families could build new lives after slav...

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Freedmen’s Town is a historic Black community in Houston, Texas, founded in 1865 by formerly enslaved men, women, and children after emancipation. Located in what is now Houston’s Fourth Ward, the neighborhood became a p...

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Tulsa’s Greenwood District was one of the most successful Black communities in America. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Greenwood became known as “Black Wall Street” because of its thriving Black-owned businesses, homes, chu...

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Selma, Alabama became one of the most important places in the Civil Rights Movement because of the fight for voting rights. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of peaceful marchers left Selma and began walking toward Montgomery t...

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Congo Square, located in New Orleans, Louisiana, is one of the most important cultural landmarks in Black history. During the 18th and 19th centuries, enslaved Africans and free people of color gathered there on Sundays ...

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Oscarville was once a Black community in Forsyth County, Georgia, near what is now Lake Lanier. Like many Black communities after emancipation, Oscarville represented land, family, work, and the hope of building somethin...

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