…illuminated by an enormous skylight that underwent extensive restoration work in 2017-18. The Foundation’s collection numbers over 12,000 objects, with significant holdings in African, American, European, Oceanic, pre-Columbian, and decorative…
Read More…that of many idiosyncratic creations, begins with the early passions and interests of a precocious and inquisitive boy. Bill Stevens began collecting natural history specimens, minerals, and native African and…
Read More…prose provides an intimate portrayal of the African American experience in the Deep South. The creation of Cane can be attributed, in part, to the brief yet intense friendship between…
Read More…in the 1950s and 1960s. Her best-known work, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first play performed on Broadway written by an African American woman. Hansberry was a New…
Read More…for an African-American audience, The Crisis, and for African-American children, The Brownies Book; and what would become the American Civil Liberties Union, among many other entities. The building was designated…
Read More…civil rights organization, the NAACP; the publishers of the first magazine for an African-American audience, The Crisis, and for African-American children, The Brownies Book; and what would become the American…
Read More…the publishers of the first magazine for an African-American audience, The Crisis, and the first magazine for African-American children, The Brownies Book; and what would become the American Civil Liberties…
Read More…landmark last May — ripples below West 14th Street, where “Colored” Schools were also located. The schoolhouse was built in 1849-50, then in 1860 was relegated to African American students…
Read More…was relegated to African American students and teachers until it closed in 1894. Hidden in plain sight, the unassuming building is the last tangible relic of the city’s more than…
Read More…From the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Mason prided herself on making every piece of jewelry differently, only agreeing to replicate a piece if she could…
Read More…re-elected again in 1985. However, his never-great relationship with the city’s African-American community took a greater slide in the late 1980s, which partially caused his 1989 primary loss. (He also…
Read More…its height the consortium included 188,000 members from many political, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. In the 1930s and 1940s, African American members of the IWO instituted the Lincoln-Douglass Society, one…
Read More…Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Hew worked tirelessly to document historical sites and artifacts related to Slavery and the African Diaspora. They collaborated with SCAD and the St….
Read More…a way of life immersed in art. The incredible studio. On view are Gross’s sculpture and drawings, as well as objects from his extensive collection of African and modern American…
Read More…challenging President Kennedy and his brother to take bolder stances on civil rights, supporting African anti-colonial leaders, and confronting the romantic racism of the Beat poets and Village hipsters. 337…
Read More…365th Regiment at a parade back in New York New York’s 369th Infantry Regiment was the first African American and Puerto Rican regiment to serve in World War I, spending…
Read More…a wide swath of the planet, covering North and West Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. They bring different cultural experiences and different languages but share their faith. The…
Read More…the African American Roman Catholic congregation of Saint Benedict the Moor in 1883. There had been a significant African-American population in the area around Minetta Street, but as the century…
Read More…York. During Rose’s lifetime, there was also a thriving free-black community known as “Little Africa” located near the Minetta Stream (now Minetta Lane), which is on the edge of Washington…
Read More…organized into five categories—African-American history, LGBT history, women’s history, social justice and political activism, and Hispanic history. Some sites are even members of several categories, like the Lorraine Hansberry Residence,…
Read More…traditions were born (where would we be without the German Christmas tree, African-Americans’ jazz, or that Eastern European Jewish staple, the bagel?!). I’m proud to be a New Yorker and…
Read More…focuses on the area around Bleecker and Carmine streets from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. (1st-5th grade) African American History, Greenwich Village and Beyond covers pre-European settlement through…
Read More…of significance to the struggle for LGBT, Women’s, African-American, Latino/a, and Asian-American civil rights in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. We have also more recently developed an “LGBTQ…
Read More…sculpture from the 1920s through the 1980s. The second floor is dedicated to revolving exhibits featuring sculpture and works on paper by Gross as well as modern European and African…
Read More…Bleecker Street. This church was originally built in 1836 for the Unitarian Universalists, but was sold to the African American Roman Catholic congregation of Saint Benedict the Moor in 1883….
Read More…production, Come Back, Africa, filmed on location in Africa, and dealing with the struggles against Apartheid. His collaboration with the Film-Makers’ Cooperative led to that group’s midnight screenings of experimental…
Read More…in American history, and one of the most important milestones in the journey to legal and political freedom and equality for African-Americans. The Village and East Village played an outsized…
Read More…creative nonfiction. She is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her writing and scholarship primarily focus on the history of Black thought, art, and imagination crafted in…
Read MorePage from LPC’s List of 25 African-American Sites. Courtesy of LPC website. In honor of Black History Month, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has released a list of 25 designated…
Read More…New York City deserves to be protected because of its connection to LGBT history, the way it has for underground railroad sites, the African Burial Ground, the Apollo Theater, or…
Read More…and early 20th century, when the Village was the center of New York’s African-American community, many of the residents of Gay Street were black, and many were musicians (read more…
Read More…West 10th Street to the “Transformative Women” tour, Paulo d’Angola and Anthony Portuguese at Washington Square Park to the “African American History” tour, and the entirety of the brand new…
Read More…City. But most, if by no means all, of the areas of New York City that are largely below the 10% Republican registration threshold are predominantly African-American or Hispanic —…
Read MoreHarlem Renaissance painter Beauford Delaney was known for his colorful modernist compositions and unique approach to figuration. One of the most important African-American artists of the early 20th century, he…
Read More…York’s most incredible stories and architecture. Click on each building for basic information and images, or take one of nearly forty tours for more in-depth information on the area’s rich history, with themes ranging from African…
Read More…West 13th Street, a site of significance in both theatrical and African American history, from potential demolition. Oppose air rights transfers and other measures to allow oversized commercial developments in…
Read More…Church sold the building to the African-American Roman Catholic Congregation of Saint Benedict the Moor, which later sold the property to Our Lady of Pompeii Church in 1898. St. Benedict…
Read More…It was the headquarters of the NAACP, the country’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, and W.E.B. DuBois’ The Crisis magazine, the nation’s first African American magazine, a vital voice…
Read More…numerous progressive organizations were founded and blossomed: the first organization to insure contraception, the first African American magazine, and a chapter of the oldest women’s peace organization — the latter…
Read More…charge. (Note plaque is on the Crosby Street Side.) Photos of dedication event here: http://bit.ly/blackwellphotos and video here: http://bit.ly/blackwelldedication Elizabeth Blackwell Plaque at 58 Crosby Street Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry The first African…
Read More…Established in 2010 by artist/historian Kamau Ware, Black Gotham Experience creates media at the intersection of scholarship and aesthetics that illustrates the impact of the African Diaspora missing from collective consciousness…
Read More…sold the building to the fledgling African-American Roman Catholic congregation of Saint Benedict the Moor. The Church of St. Benedict was named for a 16th-century African-born friar. The church was…
Read More…ages of 18 and 39, and from a wide range of places, including Africa, the Caribbean, Illinois, Pasadena, and Queens. The first issue of Umbra magazine. After the second issue…
Read More…themes we explore is how voting rights and other civil rights evolved and were won by and for African Americans in our city and elsewhere in the state and country….
Read More…Historic Places (more about Village Preservation’s efforts to recognize and protect immigration, LGBT, African-American, and countercultural landmarks here). In 2017 Village Preservation also launched an online Civil Rights and Social Justice Map,…
Read MoreView the Civil Rights and Social Justice Map Few places in America have made more significant contributions to civil rights and social justice struggles for African-Americans, Women, Latinos, Immigrants, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,…
Read MoreBlack Gotham: A Book Talk by Author Carla Peterson Join author Carla Peterson as she discusses her new book, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New…
Read More…other Spanish-speaking members of the IWO developed the organization’s Cervantes Fraternal Society, and African American members of the IWO instituted the Lincoln-Douglass Society. The Lincoln-Douglass Society, notably, offered high quality…
Read MoreLorraine Hansberry Plaque Installation The first African American woman to write a play performed on Broadway, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry bought this Greenwich Village home in 1960. Already a Villager at…
Read More…historic districts and on the State and National Registers of Historic Places (more about Village Preservation’s efforts to recognize and protect immigration, LGBT, African-American, and countercultural landmarks here). In 2017 Village Preservation…
Read More…to form the Manumission Society of New York, which in turn founded the African Free School in 1787. The Manumission Society’s work included protesting the widespread practice of kidnapping black…
Read More…the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan, his curation of numerous exhibits at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and his expertise in African…
Read More…psychedelic light shows, click here! We also have East Village Building Block tours on African American History, the Jewish/Yiddish Rialto, Historic East 10th Street, Kleindeutschland, Squats of the East Village, and Places That Matter….
Read More…as the Temple of Dendur, an expanded American Wing, the Greek and Roman wing, 20th century art, the Islamic wing, and the art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. The…
Read More…located in West Harlem at 463 W 142nd Street that today serves a primarily immigrant congregation from Latin America and Africa, and when designated was called “one of the oddest…
Read More…to North Africa and the Ottoman Empire, Holland, and eventually the New World. The evidence of these pioneering Spanish and Portuguese Jews can still be seen in Greenwich Village in…
Read More…dealt with racism. It was a wonderful piece, written by an African American male, but it was a bit more artsy. “He’s is a pussy. You’re a tiger.” Lee repeated…
Read More…of the gauchos, cattle ranchers, and barbecue, as well as “churrasco” pitmasters. But the Brazilian heritage, a mix of people indigenous to the land, descendants of African slaves, Portuguese colonizers,…
Read More…a precursor of the Visiting Nurse Service. The first Sanitary Visitor, Rebecca Cole, was also the second African American woman Doctor and the first to graduate from Woman’s Medical College in…
Read MoreBillie Holiday is considered one of the preeminent jazz vocalists of all time. She sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall, starred in hit movies, and gave voice to the African…
Read More…president of the first Congress and the first Chief Justice. John Jay I was also an abolitionist and co-founder with Alexander Hamilton of the African Free School, the first school…
Read More…and African-American history, and so much more can be found and are embodied in this district. Images from Village Preservation’s Greenwich Village Historic District 50th Celebration In 2019, Village Preservation…
Read More…and African American history in the country. Learn, too, about the first law school to admit women, an anarchist educational collective on St. Marks Place where teachers included Margaret Sanger…
Read More…to explore the enduring Italian-American presence, history, and architecture of the South Village Historic District, a neighborhood with a history that includes African-Americans, Irish-Americans, Italian priests, shop-owners, musicians, and politicians….
Read More…Reverend A.D.F. Randolph, the church began to provide education and shelter to the large numbers of Irish and German immigrant and African American children who were not attending schools or…
Read More…Great Writers Theaters Houses with Dormers Buildings Designed by George Frederick Pelham Street Name Origins Edward Hopper’s Greenwich Village Mid-Century Modern Music Venues African-American History LGBTQ Sites Pineapples, Pinecones, and…
Read More…Hopper’s Greenwich Village Mid-Century Modern Music Venues African-American History LGBTQ Sites Pineapples, Pinecones, and Acorns of the Village Musicians’ Homes Movie and TV Show Locations Wood Frame Houses Buildings Designed…
Read More…the first African American religious leader to host a television program in 1973. As the United Palace developed one of the largest congregations in the nation, the show allowed Reverend…
Read More…In part because of the street’s association with African-Americans, it has often been assumed that the street was named for Sidney Howard Gay, editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard. But…
Read More…Venues African-American History LGBTQ Sites Pineapples, Pinecones, and Acorns of the Village Musicians’ Homes Movie and TV Show Locations Wood Frame Houses Buildings Designed by Emery Roth (& Sons) Little…
Read More…Hopper’s Greenwich Village Mid-Century Modern Music Venues African-American History LGBTQ Sites Pineapples, Pinecones, and Acorns of the Village Musicians’ Homes Movie and TV Show Locations Wood Frame Houses Buildings Designed…
Read More…York; German immigrants escaping unemployment and religious and political oppression following the failed 1848 revolutions came streaming in; and recently freed African Americans (most northern states had abolished slavery by…
Read More…Charlotta Bass, the first African-American woman ever to run for national office. The campaign attracted little media attention and few votes, and was not even on the ballot in many…
Read More…like Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring. Scores of galleries opened here, and eventually the Guggenheim SoHo, the New Museum, and the Museum for African Art also opened in the neighborhood….
Read More…some of those, however, continued to face persecution). Many more, however, fled to North Africa and the Ottoman Empire, Holland, and eventually the New World. Some of these Sephardic Jews…
Read More…that featured African-American painters, poets, musicians, and others. Theatre Genesis was founded at St. Mark’s in the Bowery in 1964 by congregant Ralph Cook. The theater opened with a double…
Read More…contradictory, symbol of civil rights. On the day of the dedication, despite the ceremony’s emphasis on unity and emancipation, the audience’s seating was segregated and the only African American speaker…
Read More…the tour here. Enjoy this tour? We also have East Village Building Block tours on African American History, the Jewish/Yiddish Rialto, Historic East 10th Street, Kleindeutschland and Places That Matter….
Read More…never guessed once functioned as synagogues, including a Federal house that was also a music hall, a transitional housing facility, and an art gallery dedicated to celebrating and presenting African…
Read MorePlaque Unveiling at 27 Cooper Square In the 1960s, this 1845 former rooming house became a laboratory for artistic, literary and political currents, including growing activism among African-American artists. Writers…
Read More…Christopher Park. Interesting fact: The flagpole in Christopher Park, erected in 1936, commemorates the 1861 Fire Zouaves, the 11th New York Infantry that wore uniforms styled after North African tribesmen…
Read More…flagpole was erected in 1936 to commemorate the 1861 Fire Zouaves, an elite Civil War unit that wore uniforms styled after those worn by North African tribesmen. On June 27,…
Read More…and African American civil rights organizations as well as the Democratic Party, and launching campaigns which led to Hate Crimes legislation and civil rights protections across the country. We are…
Read More…murals addressed six themes: gentrification, police brutality, women’s issues, U.S. interventions in Latin America, apartheid in South Africa, and immigration. Today, the garden is thriving. But while the issues that…
Read More…to go out of existence after 1875, though it’s founder and leader James K. Hamilton Wilcox continued his work for both women’s and African American suffrage throughout his lifetime. It…
Read More…books and language classes. Local resident/owner David Del Vecchio worked for ten years at the United Nations as a press officer, traveling to conflict zones in Asia, Africa, and South…
Read More…the Secretary-General of the International Peace Research Association, the Chair of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation Financial Advisory Committee, and the War Resisters’ International Africa Support Network Coordinator. A noted…
Read More…notable advances in African American and women’s rights, the Ashcan School of painters, and so much more. One popular art form less strongly associated with the neighborhood but nevertheless a…
Read More…Americans nationwide and African Americans in many parts of the country still could not vote, sex was no longer a barrier to the franchise A remarkable number of people and…
Read More…Party’s “Central Committee for Negro Work,” and oversaw the Communist attempts to build unity with Marcus Garvey and his “Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.” Minor suffered a…
Read MoreCivil Rights Map Test Please select a map below to explore different topics. African-American History LGBT History…
Read More…shed light on immigrant, African-American, Jewish, Cold War, and feminist history, as well as Yiddish publishing. The IWO was founded in 1930 as an immigrant fraternal order that provided high-quality, low-cost…
Read More…as civil rights, Vietnam, and hungry miners. He also wrote about personalities such as Billie Sol Estes, a businessman who took his money into politics, William Worthy, an African-American journalist,…
Read More…the church in 1839 and were a staple of the Bedford Street M. E. Church for decades. It worked with its neightbor, the African M. E. Zion Church nearby at…
Read More…civil rights groups, writers, and leaders who had already endorsed the proposal, including the nation’s oldest African American and LGBTQ civil rights groups, the NAACP and the National LGBTQ Task…
Read More…German temperance to Jewish organized crime, and African-American jazz to Manchester electronica? For more information on the building’s history, read here >> A version of this article originally appeared in 6sqft….
Read More…Times Square in January, 1967. Portrait of American musician Jimi Hendrix (1942 – 1970) (seated), South African-born American music producer and engineer Eddie Kramer (standing left) and studio manager Jim…
Read More…from the project, and others finished the project. Mural Makers The ambitious project gathered 80 artists from 20 different countries, including Argentina, Canada, Iran, New Zealand, Nicaragua and South Africa….
Read More…hospital’s “Out Practice Department,” a precursor of the Visiting Nurse Service. The first Sanitary Visitor, Rebecca Cole, was also the second African American woman to become a doctor in America….
Read More…nudged Hispanic New Yorkers past African-Americans as the city’s second-largest racial or ethnic group in the city. I owe my own debt of gratitude to these communities as someone of…
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