African American Travel Destinations - US
African-Americans have made an impact on the culture, economics, and history of every state within the United States. We'll give you an insight on contributions made and how to get there when traveling in the US.
Alabama is an important part of Black Heritage
in the United States and its story is told in many
exhibits, festivals, and special celebrations
throughout the year.
Click to learn more... Alabama Alaska’s significance as an African American
Heritage Site is directly tied to the US military
and the state’s abundant natural resources.
Click to learn more... Alaska The African-American heritage of the Old West
could not have been fully written without the
contributions of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers.
Click to learn more... Arizona African-Americans have had a presence in Arkansas
since 1721, more than a hundred years before
statehood. Throughout the decades, black men and
women have played significant roles in the
development of the state.
Click to learn more... Arkansas The Golden State is as big and diverse in
African American history and culture as the state itself.
Click to learn more... California If travel locations could speak, Colorado’s rocky trails
and high peaks would have much to say about African
American contribution to how the West was won.
Click to learn more... Colorado John E. Rogers, considered the father of Black History
in Connecticut, was an avid researcher of long
neglected archives and historical records documenting
the lives of people of African descent.
Click to learn more... Connecticut Before Harlem, There Was U Street, where Duke
Ellington grew up and was inspired, where musical
greats such as Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gillespie
played local clubs into the wee hours of the morning,
and where movie palaces mingled with pool halls,
restaurants and barber shops.
Click to learn more... DC Slave catchers, bounty hunters and abolitionists are all a
part of well-documented tours entitled "Flight to
Freedom" highlighting Underground Railroad activities at
The New Castle Court House Museum.
Click to learn more... Delaware Daytona Beach is the home of Dr. Mary
McLeod Bethune, located on the campus of
the college she founded in 1904 with an
investment of $1.50 and a student
enrollment of five.
Click to learn more... Florida Georgia was founded in 1733 as one of the
original 13 colonies when British General
James Oglethorpe landed on its coast.
Click to learn more... Georgia Many would be surprised to discover that the 50th
state’s black heritage goes back significantly farther
than the 44th President of the United States. African
Americans have a 200-year history in Hawaii. Many
people of African ancestry came to Hawaii aboard
merchant and whaling ships.
Click to learn more... Hawaii Housed in the historic St. Paul Baptist
Church building located in Julia Davis
Park, the Idaho Black History Museum
was established to educate individuals
about the history and culture of
African Americans in Idaho.
Click to learn more... Idaho Hundreds of thousands of Black
Southerners converged on the city
fleeing violence and segregation and
seeking economic opportunity.
Click to learn more... Illinois Levi and Catharine Coffin were used a
home in Indiana to help more than 2000
escaping slaves via the Underground
Railroad.
Click to learn more... Indiana Iowa offers many stops on the
Underground Railroad including Historic
Jordan House in West Des Moines,
Hitchcock House and Nishnabotna Ferry
House in Lewis.
Click to learn more... Iowa Baldwin City is the site of the June 2,
1856 battle between John Brown and the
Free-State militia and pro-slavery
militia of Henry C. Pate. It is
regarded by many as the first battle of
the Civil War.
Click to learn more... Kansas Berea College, founded in 1855, was the
first interracial and co-educational
college in the South. One of Berea's
most famous graduates was Carter G.
Woodson, known as the "Father of Black
History."
Click to learn more... Kentucky The lovely Delta Lady has taken her
share of man-made and natural in recent
years. But Louisiana continues to
survive with its unique cultural gumbo
and historical traditions.
Click to learn more... Louisiana It is only 17 miles long. But the
Seacoast of New Hampshire and South
Coast Maine is said to be rich in Black
History.
Click to learn more... Maine African Americans, slave and free, have
been part of the rich tapestry of
Maryland since pre-Revolutionary days.
Click to learn more... Maryland Follow in the footsteps of slaves
determined to be free as they arrive at
the Jackson Homestead in Newton, a
station along The Underground Railroad
en route to Canada.
Click to learn more... Massachusetts Sojourner Truth bought a home in the
community of Battle Creek in the late
1850's, and stayed until midway through
the Civil War when she temporarily
relocated to Washington D.C.
Click to learn more... Michigan In 1920, three African-American circus
workers, held in the Duluth City Jail
on false charges of raping a white
woman, were dragged by a mob of
thousands to First Street and Second
Avenue and lynched before a cheering
crowd.
Click to learn more... Minnesota The Natchez National Historical Park is
made up of three units, which includes
The William Johnson House, owned by a
free African American businessman,
whose diary tells the story of everyday
life in antebellum Natchez.
Click to learn more... Mississippi Black Archives of Mid-America houses
one of the largest Midwestern
collections of African-American
memorabilia, artifacts and research
material on local leaders, oral
histories and business records in the
four-state area of Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa, and Oklahoma.
Click to learn more... Missouri The church is one of the first-built
and longest-used churches for African
Americans in Montana. The Great Falls
AME congregation organized in 1890, and
the current structure dates back to
1917.
Click to learn more... Montana Buffalo Soldiers from the 9th and 10th
Cavalry Regiments garrisoned Fort
Robinson for eighteen years and played
an important role in northwestern
Nebraska's history.
Click to learn more... Nebraska Visit the nation’s first major interracial hotel,
The Moulin Rouge in Las Vegas.
Click to learn more... Nevada Born in Africa and brought to this
country as a slave, Amos Fortune
purchased his freedom in 1770 at the
age of 60.
Click to learn more... New Hampshire More than 800 black soldiers fought
alongside Washington at the Battle of
Monmouth in June of 1778. It is now a
state park.
Click to learn more... New Jersey Ever heard of Cowboy George McJunkin?
A century ago, he discovered a large cache of bones
while riding in Wild Horse Arroyo with a friend.
Click to learn more... New Mexico Harriet Tubman is known as “The Moses
of Her People”. The Harriet Tubman Home
preserves her legacy, sitting on 26
acres of land in Auburn, New York,
owned and operated by the AME Zion
Church.
Click to learn more... New York The Washington Town community was founded
by freed slaves and is now known as the
Oak Grove Community.
Click to learn more... North Carolina "Buffalo Soldiers" of the 10th Cavalry
and 25th Infantry were stationed here at
the end of the 19th Century.
Click to learn more... North Dakota Experience the sights and sounds of The
Middle Passage to The New World and
what was like to be human cargo,
shackled for weeks in the hole of a
slave ship at The King Arts Complex in
Columbus.
Click to learn more... Ohio The battle of Honey Springs, July 17,
1863, involved the First Kansas Colored
Volunteer Infantry, the first black
regiment in the Union army.
Click to learn more... Oklahoma The End of the Trail Interpretive Center
offers biographical sketches of African
American pioneers and early settlers,
and a history of slavery in the
Northwest.
Click to learn more... Oregon The user-friendly Official Visitor
Guide for Greater Philadelphia will
connect you to African American
heritage sites, museums, arts,
entertainment, shopping, dining and
special events.
Click to learn more... Pennsylvania Creative Survival is a permanent exhibit
exploring black life in Providence from
1776 to 1865.
Click to learn more... Rhode Island About one-third of the nation’s slaves
came through Charleston, SC, and were
quarantined on Sullivan’s Island.
Click to learn more... South Carolina It would seem unlikely that the outlaw
town of Deadwood was named after one of
its most notorious black cowboys.
Click to learn more... South Dakota Relive harrowing moments at The National
Civil Rights Museum, located at the
Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the site of
Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination.
Click to learn more... Tennessee As it does with everything else, The Lone
Star State observes African-American
heritage in a big way.
Click to learn more... Texas Discover the local African-American
presence in Utah by taking a tour of 14
historical points of interest in Salt
Lake City Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th
cavalry and 24th infantry served in
Utah.
Click to learn more... Utah The Rev. Alexander Twilight was the first
African American college graduate (from
Middlebury College) and a state
legislator.
Click to learn more... Vermont No other state except The Commonwealth of Virginia
has the longest continuous African-American presence
in the US, dating back to August 1619, when the first Africans were
involuntarily brought to the Jamestown colony.
Click to learn more... Virginia Founded in 1977, the Black Heritage
Society collects Washington state
African-American family and
organization historical memorabilia.
Click to learn more... Washington Booker T. Washington was educated at
Hampton Institute in Virginia, and
founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Click to learn more... West Virginia Before World War I and before the
Civil War, before the Germans
and the Yankees and even the
lead miners had arrived,
African Americans were living
and working in Wisconsin.
Click to learn more... Wisconsin Preserving the history of Johnson
County, Wyoming with emphasis on the
Frontier Era, the collection contains
several artifacts from the "Buffalo
Soldiers" of the 9th Cavalry.
Click to learn more... Wyoming
in the United States and its story is told in many
exhibits, festivals, and special celebrations
throughout the year.
Click to learn more... Alabama Alaska’s significance as an African American
Heritage Site is directly tied to the US military
and the state’s abundant natural resources.
Click to learn more... Alaska The African-American heritage of the Old West
could not have been fully written without the
contributions of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers.
Click to learn more... Arizona African-Americans have had a presence in Arkansas
since 1721, more than a hundred years before
statehood. Throughout the decades, black men and
women have played significant roles in the
development of the state.
Click to learn more... Arkansas The Golden State is as big and diverse in
African American history and culture as the state itself.
Click to learn more... California If travel locations could speak, Colorado’s rocky trails
and high peaks would have much to say about African
American contribution to how the West was won.
Click to learn more... Colorado John E. Rogers, considered the father of Black History
in Connecticut, was an avid researcher of long
neglected archives and historical records documenting
the lives of people of African descent.
Click to learn more... Connecticut Before Harlem, There Was U Street, where Duke
Ellington grew up and was inspired, where musical
greats such as Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gillespie
played local clubs into the wee hours of the morning,
and where movie palaces mingled with pool halls,
restaurants and barber shops.
Click to learn more... DC Slave catchers, bounty hunters and abolitionists are all a
part of well-documented tours entitled "Flight to
Freedom" highlighting Underground Railroad activities at
The New Castle Court House Museum.
Click to learn more... Delaware Daytona Beach is the home of Dr. Mary
McLeod Bethune, located on the campus of
the college she founded in 1904 with an
investment of $1.50 and a student
enrollment of five.
Click to learn more... Florida Georgia was founded in 1733 as one of the
original 13 colonies when British General
James Oglethorpe landed on its coast.
Click to learn more... Georgia Many would be surprised to discover that the 50th
state’s black heritage goes back significantly farther
than the 44th President of the United States. African
Americans have a 200-year history in Hawaii. Many
people of African ancestry came to Hawaii aboard
merchant and whaling ships.
Click to learn more... Hawaii Housed in the historic St. Paul Baptist
Church building located in Julia Davis
Park, the Idaho Black History Museum
was established to educate individuals
about the history and culture of
African Americans in Idaho.
Click to learn more... Idaho Hundreds of thousands of Black
Southerners converged on the city
fleeing violence and segregation and
seeking economic opportunity.
Click to learn more... Illinois Levi and Catharine Coffin were used a
home in Indiana to help more than 2000
escaping slaves via the Underground
Railroad.
Click to learn more... Indiana Iowa offers many stops on the
Underground Railroad including Historic
Jordan House in West Des Moines,
Hitchcock House and Nishnabotna Ferry
House in Lewis.
Click to learn more... Iowa Baldwin City is the site of the June 2,
1856 battle between John Brown and the
Free-State militia and pro-slavery
militia of Henry C. Pate. It is
regarded by many as the first battle of
the Civil War.
Click to learn more... Kansas Berea College, founded in 1855, was the
first interracial and co-educational
college in the South. One of Berea's
most famous graduates was Carter G.
Woodson, known as the "Father of Black
History."
Click to learn more... Kentucky The lovely Delta Lady has taken her
share of man-made and natural in recent
years. But Louisiana continues to
survive with its unique cultural gumbo
and historical traditions.
Click to learn more... Louisiana It is only 17 miles long. But the
Seacoast of New Hampshire and South
Coast Maine is said to be rich in Black
History.
Click to learn more... Maine African Americans, slave and free, have
been part of the rich tapestry of
Maryland since pre-Revolutionary days.
Click to learn more... Maryland Follow in the footsteps of slaves
determined to be free as they arrive at
the Jackson Homestead in Newton, a
station along The Underground Railroad
en route to Canada.
Click to learn more... Massachusetts Sojourner Truth bought a home in the
community of Battle Creek in the late
1850's, and stayed until midway through
the Civil War when she temporarily
relocated to Washington D.C.
Click to learn more... Michigan In 1920, three African-American circus
workers, held in the Duluth City Jail
on false charges of raping a white
woman, were dragged by a mob of
thousands to First Street and Second
Avenue and lynched before a cheering
crowd.
Click to learn more... Minnesota The Natchez National Historical Park is
made up of three units, which includes
The William Johnson House, owned by a
free African American businessman,
whose diary tells the story of everyday
life in antebellum Natchez.
Click to learn more... Mississippi Black Archives of Mid-America houses
one of the largest Midwestern
collections of African-American
memorabilia, artifacts and research
material on local leaders, oral
histories and business records in the
four-state area of Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa, and Oklahoma.
Click to learn more... Missouri The church is one of the first-built
and longest-used churches for African
Americans in Montana. The Great Falls
AME congregation organized in 1890, and
the current structure dates back to
1917.
Click to learn more... Montana Buffalo Soldiers from the 9th and 10th
Cavalry Regiments garrisoned Fort
Robinson for eighteen years and played
an important role in northwestern
Nebraska's history.
Click to learn more... Nebraska Visit the nation’s first major interracial hotel,
The Moulin Rouge in Las Vegas.
Click to learn more... Nevada Born in Africa and brought to this
country as a slave, Amos Fortune
purchased his freedom in 1770 at the
age of 60.
Click to learn more... New Hampshire More than 800 black soldiers fought
alongside Washington at the Battle of
Monmouth in June of 1778. It is now a
state park.
Click to learn more... New Jersey Ever heard of Cowboy George McJunkin?
A century ago, he discovered a large cache of bones
while riding in Wild Horse Arroyo with a friend.
Click to learn more... New Mexico Harriet Tubman is known as “The Moses
of Her People”. The Harriet Tubman Home
preserves her legacy, sitting on 26
acres of land in Auburn, New York,
owned and operated by the AME Zion
Church.
Click to learn more... New York The Washington Town community was founded
by freed slaves and is now known as the
Oak Grove Community.
Click to learn more... North Carolina "Buffalo Soldiers" of the 10th Cavalry
and 25th Infantry were stationed here at
the end of the 19th Century.
Click to learn more... North Dakota Experience the sights and sounds of The
Middle Passage to The New World and
what was like to be human cargo,
shackled for weeks in the hole of a
slave ship at The King Arts Complex in
Columbus.
Click to learn more... Ohio The battle of Honey Springs, July 17,
1863, involved the First Kansas Colored
Volunteer Infantry, the first black
regiment in the Union army.
Click to learn more... Oklahoma The End of the Trail Interpretive Center
offers biographical sketches of African
American pioneers and early settlers,
and a history of slavery in the
Northwest.
Click to learn more... Oregon The user-friendly Official Visitor
Guide for Greater Philadelphia will
connect you to African American
heritage sites, museums, arts,
entertainment, shopping, dining and
special events.
Click to learn more... Pennsylvania Creative Survival is a permanent exhibit
exploring black life in Providence from
1776 to 1865.
Click to learn more... Rhode Island About one-third of the nation’s slaves
came through Charleston, SC, and were
quarantined on Sullivan’s Island.
Click to learn more... South Carolina It would seem unlikely that the outlaw
town of Deadwood was named after one of
its most notorious black cowboys.
Click to learn more... South Dakota Relive harrowing moments at The National
Civil Rights Museum, located at the
Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the site of
Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination.
Click to learn more... Tennessee As it does with everything else, The Lone
Star State observes African-American
heritage in a big way.
Click to learn more... Texas Discover the local African-American
presence in Utah by taking a tour of 14
historical points of interest in Salt
Lake City Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th
cavalry and 24th infantry served in
Utah.
Click to learn more... Utah The Rev. Alexander Twilight was the first
African American college graduate (from
Middlebury College) and a state
legislator.
Click to learn more... Vermont No other state except The Commonwealth of Virginia
has the longest continuous African-American presence
in the US, dating back to August 1619, when the first Africans were
involuntarily brought to the Jamestown colony.
Click to learn more... Virginia Founded in 1977, the Black Heritage
Society collects Washington state
African-American family and
organization historical memorabilia.
Click to learn more... Washington Booker T. Washington was educated at
Hampton Institute in Virginia, and
founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Click to learn more... West Virginia Before World War I and before the
Civil War, before the Germans
and the Yankees and even the
lead miners had arrived,
African Americans were living
and working in Wisconsin.
Click to learn more... Wisconsin Preserving the history of Johnson
County, Wyoming with emphasis on the
Frontier Era, the collection contains
several artifacts from the "Buffalo
Soldiers" of the 9th Cavalry.
Click to learn more... Wyoming
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