Research Guides: *African American Studies: Museums

Northwestern's Block Museum

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey, 9/19/2014–12/7/2014
Black Collectivities Conference, May, 2013
Terry Adkins Recital, 1/11/2013-3/24/2013
Madea's Big Scholarly Roundtable: Perspectives on the Media of Tyler Perry, November 28, 2012
Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks, 4/24/2009-6/28/2009
Gordon Parks: A Renaissance Man
Panel discussion, May 16, 2009 [audio: 1:31 minutes]
Lorna Simpson: 31, 1/17/2004-3/28/2004
Wall of Respect
From NUIT & Block Museum Internship Program 2003?

Illiniois

HBCU Museums

Art Museum, North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC
Carrie Meek-James N. Eaton, Sr. Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum
Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL
Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
Atlanta, GA
Diggs Gallery
Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
Dr. William R. Harvey Museum of Art, Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama
Fisk University Galleries
Nashville, TN
Hampton University Museum
Hampton, VA
Howard University Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
Howard University Museum
Washington, DC
James E. Lewis Museum of Art
Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
Legacy Museum
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL
Margaret Walker Center
Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation
Bethune Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL
North Carolina Central University Art Museum
Durham, NC
Southern University Museum of Art, Shreveport, LA
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
State Black Archives Research Center & Museum
Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL
University Museum at Texas Southern University
Houston, TX

House Museums

Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum, Lynchburg, VA
Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House, Charleston, WV
Gilmore (1909-1986), business leader, civil rights advocate
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Washington, DC
Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA
Juanita J. Craft House, Dallas, TX
Craft (1902-1985), civil rights organizer, public servant
Louis Armstrong House Museum, Corona, Queens, NY
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, Washington, DC
Medgar Evers Home Virtual Tour, Jackson, MS
Modjeska Monteith Simkins House, Columbia, SC
Simkins (1899-1992), civil rights advocate
Paul Laurence Dunbar House, Dayton, OH
Paul Robeson House & Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Rutherford B.H. Yates Museum, Houston, TX
Owner of Yates Printing Co.
Saving Slave Houses

International Museums

Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia
Buxton National Historic Site & Museum
North Buxton, Ontario, Canada
Chatham Kent Black Mecca Museum
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
International Slavery Museum
Liverpool, U.K.
John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum
Lakeshore Ontario, Canada
Legacies on Display: Slavery in Museums
85 permanent exhibitions, from Antislavery Usable Past

Museum Media

National Museum of African American History & Culture
USTREAM channel features many public programs
Paul Robeson House & Museum
Philadelphia, PA

Notable

Diversity in Museums: Case Studies and Demographic Surveys
By Ithaka S+R, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Association of Art Museum Directors, and the American Alliance of Museums.

Online Exhibitions

Africana Age
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
African American Life in Wichita, Kansas
Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
American Art from Howard University
Breaking Racial Barriers
African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection
Captive Passage
Transatlantic Slave Trade & the Making of the Americas, Mariners' Museum, Newport News, VA
A Change Is Gonna Come
North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, NC
Emilie Davis Diaries, 1863-1865
Penn State University Libraries
Exhibit of American Negroes
W. E. B. DuBois' display for Paris 1900 International Exposition.
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The original exhibit included thousands of photographs, as well as hundreds of books, pamplets and assorted documents chronicling the experience of African Americans up to the year 1900.
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Curated by Dr. Maurice Berger.
Free at Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th & 19th Centuries
Exhibit at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Freedom House Photographs
Roxbury Places, People and Events, 1950-1975
IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of African American History & Culture.
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
John A. Williams Online Exhibit, University of Rochester
Katherine Dunham's Living Legacy
Katherine Dunham: Beyond the Dance, 2008 Missouri History Museum exhibit
Look Back, Ponder, and Move On
Savannah 1750-1900, from the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation
Marian Anderson: A Life in Song
Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
Million Man March
New York Historical Society
-Examination Days: NY African Free School Collection
-NY Divided: Slavery & the Civil War
-Slavery in New York
Quakers & Slavery
Haverford & Swarthmore Colleges
Road from Hell is Paved with Little Rocks: Digitizing the History of Segregation and Integrations of Arkansas’s Educational System
Schomburg Center
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education
Slavery and Justice
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, RI
Small Towns, Black Lives
Wendel White on African American communities of southern New Jersey
Transatlantic Dialogue
Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa
USPHS Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male in Macon County, AL (1932-72)

Smithsonian Institution

Hip-Hop and Rap Across the Smithsonian
National Museum of African American History and Culture Digital Resources Guide
National Museum of African American History and Culture’s LGBTQ+ collection online
Search the collection @NMAAHC
SIRIS | Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
Search 1.8 million records from dozens of Smithsonian libraries, archives, museums, & specialized research units.
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images.

United States

Virtual Museums

America's Black Holocaust Museum
Black Inventor Online Museum
Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Red Tail Squadron Virtual Museum
America’s tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen
DC Digital Museum
Humanities Council of Washington, DC
Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center
New York City
Museum Of UnCut Funk | International. Intergalactic.

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