Historic Places Researched and Photographed

Listed by Date

04/09/22:  Emancipation and Freedom Monument - Brown's Island, Richmond, Virginia

10/01/22:  Frederick Douglass Cemetery - Alexandria, VA

12/22/21:  Ahmaud Arbery gravesite. New Springfield Baptist Church Cemetery - Waynesboro, GA 

07/04/21:  Viola Liuzzo crypt. Holy Sepulchre Cemetery - Southfield, MI

07/04/21:  Viola Liuzzo statue - Detroit, MI

07/04/21:  Original Motown location - Detroit, MI

07/04/21:  Aretha Franklin crypt. Woodlawn Cemetery - Detroit, MI

07/04/21:  Rosa Parks crypt, Woodlawn Cemetery - Detroit, MI

12/28/19:  Frank Wills gravesite, initiator of the Watergate investigation. Mt. Transfiguration Baptist Church - North Augusta, SC

12/26/19:  Lower Ninth Ward - New Orleans, LA
12/26/19:  Homer Plessey History Marker - New Orleans, LA
12/26/19:  Mahalia Jackson Gravesite - Metairie, LA 
12/25/19:  Ashton Villa - Galveston, TX
12/24/19:  New Emmett Till History Marker, Glendora, MS
12/24/19:  EJI History Marker - Tuscaloosa, AL

11/26/19:  Frank Wills gravesite, initiator of the Watergate investigation. Mt. Transfiguration Baptist Church - North August, SC
 
09/01/19:  Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church - Montgomery, AL 
09/01/19:  The National Memorial for Peace and Justice - Montgomery, AL 
09/01/19:  Mt. Zion United Methodist Church. Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were on their way to the church when they were killed - Philadelphia, MS 
09/01/19:  Location Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman's bodies were found in an earthen dam - Philadelphia, MS

08/31/19:  Tallahatchie River, location of the discovery of Emmett Till's body, History Marker taken away - Glendora, MS 
08/31/19:  Tallahatchie County Courthouse, History Marker and location of the Murder Trial of Emmett Till - Sumner, MS 
08/31/19:  Bryant's store, History Marker and location of Emmett Till whistling at a white woman - Money, MS

01/04/19:  The National Memorial for Peace and Justice - Montgomery, AL 
01/04/19:  The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration - Montgomery, AL 
01/03/19:  Mt. Zion United Methodist Church. Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were on their way to the church when they were killed - Philadelphia, MS 
01/03/19:  Location Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman's bodies were found in an earthen dam - Philadelphia, MS 01/03/19:  Tallahatchie River, location of the discovery of Emmett Till's body, History Marker with bullet holes - Glendora, MS 
01/03/19:  Tallahatchie County Courthouse, History Marker and location of the Murder Trial of Emmett Till - Sumner, MS 
01/03/19:  Bryant's store, History Marker and location of Emmett Till whistling at a white woman - Money, MS 

05/08/18: History Marker, First Africans in Virginia. Point Comfort - Hampton, VA

02/18/17: Caroline County Courthouse. Location of the Lovings' detainment - Bowling Green, VA 

02/11/17: Alexandria Black History Museum. Author Andrew W. Kahrl book presentation "The Land Was Ours" 

12/24/16: Appomattox Court House - Appomattox, VA 

10/01/16: National Museum of African American History and Culture - Washington, DC 

07/02/16: Six Mount Zion Baptist Church - Richmond, VA 

06/26/16: Schoolhouse Museum - Smithfield, VA 

04/26/16: Andrew Goodman gravesite. Mount Judah Cemetery - Queens, NY  

03/18/16: Mt. Auburn Cemetery - Baltimore, MD  

01/01/16: Chrysler Museum of Art. Saints and Dragons, Icons from Byzantium to Russia - Norfolk, VA 

12/28/15: Mother Bethel AME Church - Philadelphia, PA 

12/25/15: Mount Judah Cemetery (Looked for grave of Andrew Goodman. Did not find him.) - Queens, NY  

11/07/15: Market House - Fayetteville, NC 

10/28/15: Janie Porter Barrett/Barrett Correctional Center - Hanover, VA  

07/25/15: Museum of the Confederacy - Richmond, VA 
07/25/15: Morgan v. Virginia History Marker - Saluda, VA 

07/02/15: Great Dismal Swamp - Suffolk, VA 

05/23/15: Monticello Home of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings - Charlottesville, VA 

03/08/15: 50 Year Anniversary March across Edmund Pettus Bridge - Selma, AL 
03/07/15: 50 Year Anniversary of Bloody Sunday - Selma, AL  

11/28/14: Wendell O. Scott Sr. History Marker - Danville, VA 
11/28/14: Wendell O. Scott Sr. gravesite - Danville, VA 

08/23/14: Jackson Ward, Bill Bojangles Robinson Statue - Richmond, VA 

08/02/14: Woodlawn Cemetery - Richmond, VA 

07/19/14: The National D-Day Memorial - Bedford, VA 

07/05/14: Robert F. Williams gravesite - Monroe, NC 
07/04/14: Ft. Sumter - Charleston, SC 
07/03/14: Arthur Guest Interview - Charleston, SC

05/31/14: Jackson Ward - Richmond, VA 

05/03/14: Jackson Ward - Richmond, VA 

04/28/14: Grover Washington, Jr. gravesite - Bala Cynwyd, PA 
04/28/14: Teddy Pendergrass gravesite - Bala Cynwyd, PA 

11/30/13:  Ralph Bunche High School - Shiloh, VA 
11/30/13:  St. Ignatius Catholic Church - Port Tobacco, MD 

11/11/13:  St. Ignatius Catholic Church - Port Tobacco, MD 

10/10/13:  Afro-American History and Genealogy Society National Conference - Nashville, TN
10/09/13:  Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden and gravesite - Ruleville, MS 
10/09/13:  Tallahatchie River, location of the discovery of Emmett Till's body - Glendora, MS 
10/09/13:  Tallahatchie County Courthouse, History Marker and location of the Murder Trial of Emmett Till - Sumner, MS 
10/09/13:  Bryant's store, History Marker and location of Emmett Till whistling at a white woman - Money, MS 

08/28/13:  50th Anniversary March on Washington National Mall - Washington, DC 

08/24/13:  National Action to Realize the Dream March National Mall - Washington, DC 

08/17/13:  Chuck Brown gravesite, Trinity Memorial Gardens - Waldorf, MD 

05/24/13:  Dred Scott and Blow Family History Marker - Capron, VA 

05/01/13:  Lloyd Lionel Gaines gravesite Saint Peters Cemetery - Normandy, MO 
05/01/13:  Charles A. Turpin gravesite Saint Peters Cemetery - Normandy, MO 
05/01/13:  Thomas M.J. Turpin gravesite Saint Peters Cemetery - Normandy, MO 
05/01/13:  Captain Wendell O. Pruitt gravesite Saint Peters Cemetery - Normandy, MO 
05/01/13:  Cool Papa Bell gravesite Saint Peters Cemetery - Normandy, MO 
05/01/13:  Scott Joplin House - St. Louis, MO

04/30/13:  Shelby's Last Stand Historical Marker, Forest Hill Cemetery - Kansas City, MO 
04/30/13:  Satchel Paige gravesite, Forest Hill Cemetery - Kansas City, MO 
04/30/13:  Buck O'Neil gravesite, Forest Hill Cemetery - Kansas City, MO
04/30/13:  Buck O'Neil Memorial, Forest Hill Cemetery - Kansas City, MO 
04/30/13:  Brown v. Board of Education Historical Site - Topeka, KS 04/29/13:  St. Louis Arch - St. Louis, MO 04/29/13:  Dred and Harriet Scot Statue - St. Louis, MO
04/29/13:  Courthouse (old) - St. Louis, MO 
04/29/13:  William Tecumseh Sherman gravesite, Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum - St. Louis, MO 
04/29/13:  Dred Scott' gravesite, Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum - St. Louis, MO 
04/06/13:  Frederick Douglass Birthplace - Tuckahoe, MD 
04/06/13:  Frederick Douglass Statute - Easton, MD 

12/31/12: Freedmen's Colony - Roanoke Island, NC 
12/30/12: Emancipation Proclamation viewing, National Archives - Washington, DC 

12/22/12: Harriet Tubman's birthplace - Cambridge, MD 
12/22/12: Scott's Chapel/Bucktown Methodist Church - Cambridge, MD 
12/22/12: Dorchester County Court House - Cambridge, MD 
12/16/12: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial - Washington, DC 

05/01/12: Drayton Hall Plantation - Charleston, SC 
05/01/12: Angel Oak Tree - Charleston, SC 
05/01/12: Washington Racecourse/Hampton Park - Charleston, SC 

04/28/12: George Washington Carver gravesite, Tuskegee University - Tuskegee, AL 
04/28/12: Booker T. Washington gravesite, Tuskegee University - Tuskegee, AL 
04/28/12: 16th Street Baptist Church - Birmingham, AL 
04/28/12: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute - Birmingham, AL 
04/28/12: Kelly Ingram Park - Birmingham, AL 
04/28/12: Carole Rosamond Robertson gravesite, Greenwood Cemetery - Birmingham, AL 
04/28/12: Addie Mae Collins gravesite, Greenwood Cemetery - Birmingham, AL 
04/28/12: Cynthia Dionne Wesley gravesite, Greenwood Cemetery - Birmingham, AL 
04/27/12: Dr. King's Childhood Home - Atlanta, GA 
04/27/12: Dr. King's Tomb, King Center - Atlanta, GA 
04/27/12: Martin Luther King National Historic Site Visitor's Center - Atlanta, GA 

12/23/11: Former Randolph County Superior Court - Cuthbert, GA 
12/23/11: Cuthbert Water Tower - Cuthbert, GA 
12/23/11: Albany Civil Rights Institute - Albany, GA 
12/22/11: Edmund Pettus Bridge - Selma, AL 
12/22/11: National Voting Rights Museum and Institute II - Selma, AL 
12/22/11: Viola Liuzzo Memorial - Haneville, AL 
12/22/11: Mt. Vernon Baptist Church and Cemetery - Cuthbert, GA 
12/22/11: Lena Baker gravesite and cemetery - Cuthbert, GA 
12/21/11: Randolph County Georgia Superior Court - Cuthbert, GA 
12/20/11: MLK Jr. boyhood home, National Historic Site and Preservation District - Atlanta, GA 
12/20/11: MLK Jr. Center for Nonviolent and Social Change, National Historic Site and Preservation District - Atlanta, GA 
12/20/11: Ebenezer Baptist Church, National Historic Site and Preservation District - Atlanta, GA 
12/20/11: MLK Jr. Museum, National Historic Site and Preservation District - Atlanta, GA 

12/04/11: Highland Beach - Highland, MD 

10/29/11: Henrietta Lacks gravesite, family cemetery and home house - Clover, VA 

07/03/11: Geneva Morganfield gravesite, Restvale Cemetery - Worth, IL 
07/03/11: "Muddy Waters" McKinley Morganfield gravesite, Restvale Cemetery - Worth, IL 
07/03/11: "Howlin' Wolf's" Chester Burnett gravesite, Oakridge/Glen Oak Cemetery - Hillside, IL 
07/02/11: George Pullman gravesite, Graceland Cemetery - Chicago, IL 
07/02/11: Etta Johnson gravesite, Graceland Cemetery - Chicago, IL 
07/02/11: Jack Johnson gravesite, Graceland Cemetery - Chicago, IL 
07/02/11: Chess Records - Chicago, IL 07/02/11: Robert's Temple Church of God in Christ - Chicago, IL 
07/02/11: Mamie Till gravesite, Burr Oak Cemetery - Alsip, IL 
07/02/11: Emmett Till gravesite, Burr Oak Cemetery - Alsip, IL 

05/01/11: New Orleans Jazz Festival - New Orleans, LA 
04/30/11: William Frantz Public School - New Orleans, LA 
04/30/11: Louis Armstrong Park - New Orleans, LA 
04/30/11: J&M Recording Studio - New Orleans, LA 
04/29/11: Treme Street, New Orleans, LA 
04/29/11: St. Augustine Catholic Church - New Orleans, LA 
04/29/11: Homer Plessy Tomb, St. Louis Cemetery - New Orleans, LA 
04/28/11: New Orleans City Tour - New Orleans, LA 
04/27/11: Swamp Tour - Crown Point, LA 
04/26/11: Laura Plantation - Vacherie, LA 
04/26/11: Oak Alley Plantation - Vacherie, LA 

03/26/11: First Baptist Church - Petersburg, VA 

12/23/10: History Marker Orangeburg Massacre - Orangeburg, SC 
12/23/10: Walterboro Army Airfield Memorial Park - Walterboro, SC 
12/22/10: African American History Tour - Savannah, GA 
12/22/10: Owen Thomas Home - Savannah, GA 
12/21/10: Mary Turner gravesite and History Marker - Hahira, GA 
12/20/10: Zora Neal Hurston gravesite - Ft. Pierce, FL 
12/03/10: Lake Drummond and the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge - Suffolk, VA 

10/23/10: Smithfield Schoolhouse Museum - Smithfield, VA 
10/23/10: Lake Drummond and the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge - Suffolk, VA 
09/15/10: Sarah Collins Rudolph and Junie Collins “Peavy” Williams, sisters of Addie Mae Collins panel discussion, Dickinson College - Carlisle, PA

09/11/10: Virginia State Capitol - Richmond, VA 

08/06/10: Henrietta Lacks gravesite, family cemetery and home house - Clover, VA 

08/01/10: Lorraine Hansberry gravesite, Bethel Cemetery- Croton-on-Hudson, NY 
07/31/10: Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson's gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery - Bronx, NY 
07/31/10: Celia Cruz gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery - Bronx, NY 
07/31/10: Lionel Hampton gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery - Bronx, NY

07/17/10: Blacks in Wax Museum - Baltimore, MD 

07/03/10: Apollo Theater - Harlem, NY 
07/03/10: Jackie Robinson gravesite, Cypress Hills Cemetery - Brooklyn, NY 
07/03/10: Eubie Blake, Cypress Hills Cemetery - Brooklyn, NY 

06/19/10: Josh Gibson gravesite, Allegheny Cemetery- Pittsburgh, PA 
06/19/10: William "Gus" Greenlee gravesite, Allegheny Cemetery - Pittsburgh, PA 
06/19/10: Marcus P. Blakemore gravesite, Allegheny Cemetery - Pittsburgh, PA 
06/19/10: Charles "Teenie" Harris gravesite, Homewood Cemetery - Pittsburgh, PA 

06/12/10: Royal Theater Marquee Plaza - Baltimore, MD 
06/12/10: Statue of Billie Holiday - Baltimore, MD 

06/05/10: Langston Golf Course - Washington, DC 
06/05/10: Charles Young Elementary School - Washington, DC 

04/30/10: Matthew Henson gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, VA 
04/30/10: Robert Peary gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, VA 
04/30/10: Medgar Evers gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, VA 
04/30/10: Joe Louis gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, VA 
04/30/10: John F. Kennedy gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, VA 
04/30/10: Robert F. Kennedy gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, VA 04/30/10: Thurgood Marshall gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, VA 
04/30/10: Warren Burger gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, VA   
04/29/10: International Civil Rights Center & Museum - Greensboro, NC 
03/27/10: Uptown Theater - Philadelphia, PA 
03/27/10: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. National Office - Philadelphia, PA 
03/06/10: Civil and Spanish American War Colored Troop Memorial, West Point Cemetery section of Elmwood Cemetery - Norfolk, VA 
03/06/10: Carl Brashear gravesite, Woodlawn Memorial Gardens - Norfolk City, VA 

12/23/09: Slave Port of Entry - Cedar Key, FL 
12/23/09: Lizzie PRB Jenkins interview, descendant of Rosewood resident Mahulda Gussie Brown Carrier - Rosewood, FL 
12/23/09: Site of racial violence against Blacks - Rosewood, FL 
12/23/09: Home of Sheriff Bob Walker - Bronson, FL 
12/23/09: Sheriff Bob Walker gravesite - Archer, FL 

11/08/09: Lt. Colonel Alexander Jefferson, Tuskegee Airman, Charles Houston Recreation Center - Alexandria, VA 

09/19/09: Frederick Douglass High School - Baltimore, MD 

09/06/09: Middlesex County Courthouse - Saluda, VA 
09/06/09: Met with the daughter of Ms. Kirkaldy - Brenda Bacquie 
09/06/09: Irene Morgan Kirkaldy gravesite, Rosewell Cemetery - Gloucester, VA 

08/05/09: Nurse Eunice Rivers, (did not locate) Greenwood Cemetery - Tuskegee, AL 
08/05/09: George Washington Carver gravesite, Tuskegee University - Tuskegee, AL 
08/05/09: Booker T. Washington gravesite, Tuskegee University - Tuskegee, AL 
08/05/09: Civil Rights Memorial Center - Montgomery, AL 
08/05/09: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church - Montgomery, AL 
08/05/09: Rosa Parks Museum - Montgomery, AL 
08/05/09: Viola Liuzzo Memorial - Haneville, AL 
08/05/09: Lowndes County Interpretive Center - Haneville, AL 
08/05/09: National Voting Rights Museum and Institute - Selma, AL 
08/05/09: Dallas County Courthouse - Selma, AL 
08/04/09: 16th Street Baptist Church - Birmingham, AL 
08/04/09: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute - Birmingham, AL 
08/04/09: Kelly Ingram Park - Birmingham, AL 
08/04/09: Carole Rosamond Robertson gravesite, Greenwood Cemetery - Birmingham, AL 
08/04/09: Addie Mae Collins gravesite, Greenwood Cemetery - Birmingham, AL 
08/04/09: Cynthia Dionne Wesley gravesite, Greenwood Cemetery - Birmingham, AL 
08/04/09: Carol Denise McNair gravesite, Elmwood Cemetery - Birmingham, AL 
08/04/09: Herman Sunny Blount AKA Sun Ra gravesite, Elmwood Cemetery- Birmingham, AL 
08/03/09: Mausoleum wall of Ralph Abernathy, Lincoln Cemetery - Atlanta, GA 
08/03/09: MLK Jr. boyhood home, National Historic Site and Preservation District - Atlanta, GA 
08/03/09: MLK Jr. Center for Nonviolent and Social Change, National Historic Site and Preservation District - Atlanta, GA

08/03/09: Ebenezer Baptist Church, National Historic Site and Preservation District - Atlanta, GA

08/03/09: MLK Jr. Museum, National Historic Site and Preservation District - Atlanta, GA 

06/27/09: Sappony Baptist Church - Stony Creek, VA 

05/24/09: African American Burial Ground National Monument - Manhattan, NY 
05/24/09: John Coltrane gravesite, Pinelawn Memorial Park - Farmingdale, NY 
05/23/09: Miles Davis gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery - Bronx, NY 
05/23/09: Duke Ellington gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery - Bronx, NY 
05/23/09: Madam C.J. Walker gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery - Bronx, NY 
05/23/09: Max Roach gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery - Bronx, NY 
05/23/09: Canada Lee gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery - Bronx, NY 
05/23/09: Jean Baptist Illinois Jacquet gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery - Bronx, NY 
05/23/09: Paul Robeson gravesite, Ferncliff Cemetery - Hartsdale, NY 
05/23/09: James Baldwin' gravesite, Ferncliff Cemetery - Hartsdale, NY 
05/23/09: Thelonious Monk gravesite, Ferncliff Cemetery - Hartsdale, NY
 
04/30/09: Marian Anderson gravesite, Eden Cemetery - Collingsdale, PA 
04/30/09: Octavius Valentine Catto gravesite, Eden Cemetery - Collingsdale, PA 
04/30/09: Pear Bailey gravesite, Rolling Green Memorial Park - West Chester, PA 
04/30/09: Bill Bailey gravesite, Rolling Green Memorial Park - West Chester, PA 

04/18/09: Slave Auction Block - Fredericksburg, VA 

02/16/09: Dr. Carter G. Woodson gravesite, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery - Suitland, MD
02/16/09: Dr. Charles Drew gravesite, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery - Suitland, MD 
02/15/09: Joseph "Smokey Joe" Williams, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery - Suitland, MD 
02/15/09: Van McCoy, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery - Suitland, MD 
02/15/09: Len Bias, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery - Suitland, MD 

02/07/09: Rosewell Cemetery - Gloucester, VA 
02/06/09: Irene Morgan Kirkaldy gravesite (not located) Rosewell Cemetery - Gloucester, VA 
02/06/09: Richard and Mildred Loving's Cemetery - Bowling Green, VA 

01/17/09: Hattie Carroll gravesite, Baltimore National Cemetery - Baltimore, MD 
01/17/09: United States Capitol - Washington, DC 

12/25/08: National Voting Rights Museum and Institute - Selma, AL 
12/25/08: Dallas County Courthouse - Selma, AL 
12/25/08: Edmund Pettus Bridge - Selma, AL 
12/24/08: James Chaney gravesite - Meridian, MS 
12/24/08: Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman Memorial - Philadelphia, MS 

12/22/08: Mt. Zion Baptist Church - Tulsa, OK 
12/22/08: Vernon AME Church - Tulsa, OK 
12/22/08: Black Wall Street - Tulsa, OK 
12/22/08: Greenwood Cultural Center - Tulsa, OK 
12/22/08: Mabel B. Heritage House - Tulsa 
12/21/08: Little Rock Central High School - Little Rock, AR 
12/20/08: Home of Medgar Evers - Jackson, MS 
12/20/08: Bryant's store, location of Emmett Till whistling at a white woman - Money, MS 
12/20/08: Robert Johnson History Marker - Greenwood, MS 
12/20/08: Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden and gravesite - Ruleville, MS 

12/13/08: Howard Theater - Washington, DC 
12/13/08: Dunbar High School - Washington, DC 

12/12/08: Greenville Training School - Emporia, VA

11/22/08: U.S. National Slavery Museum, Spirit of Freedom Garden - Fredericksburg, VA 

10/25/08: Robert Russa Moton Museum - Farmville, VA 

10/19/08: Titanic Memorial - Washington, DC 
10/18/08: Richard "Dick" Poplar, Blanford Cemetery - Petersburg, VA 
10/18/08: Winston Edmunds, Woodland Cemetery - Richmond, VA 
10/18/08: Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Woodland Cemetery - Richmond, VA 

10/15/08: Buffalo Soldiers, Alexandria National Cemetery - Alexandria, VA 

09/19/08: Eggelston Hotel - Richmond, VA 
09/19/08: A.D. Price Funeral Home - Richmond, VA 
09/19/08: St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, VA 
09/19/08: Maggie Walker gravesite and family plot, Evergreen Cemetery - Richmond, VA 
09/19/08: Oakwood Cemetery - Richmond, VA 
09/19/08: John Jasper gravesite, Woodland Cemetery - Richmond, VA 

09/07/08: Joseph Gans gravesite, Mt. Auburn Cemetery - Baltimore, MD 

08/17/08: Robert F. Kennedy gravesite, Arlington Cemetery - Arlington, VA 
08/17/08: John F. Kennedy gravesite, Arlington Cemetery - Arlington, VA
08/17/08: Thurgood Marshall gravesite, Arlington Cemetery - Arlington, VA
08/17/08: Warren Burger gravesite, Arlington Cemetery - Arlington, VA 

08/10/08: Harriet Tubman gravesite and family plot, Fort Hill Cemetery - Auburn, NY 
08/10/08: Susan B. Anthony gravesite and family plot, Mt. Hope Cemetery - Rochester, NY 
08/10/08: Frederick Douglass gravesite and family plot, Mt. Hope Cemetery - Rochester, NY 
08/09/08: Michigan Street Baptist Church - Buffalo, NY 

08/01/08: Maggie Walker Home, National Historic Site - Richmond, VA 
08/01/08: St. Luke Building - Richmond, VA  

06/07/08: Franklin and Armfield Dealers in Slaves - Alexandria, VA 
06/07/08: Alexandria's African American History Museum - Alexandria, VA 

06/02/08: Freedman's Cemetery Demolition and Archaeological Investigation - Alexandria, VA
 
06/01/08: Arthur Robert Ashe gravesite and family plot, Woodland Cemetery - Richmond, VA 

05/31/08: Home of Frederick Douglass - Washington, DC 

12/29/07: Aaliyah Haughton Mausoleum wall, Ferncliff Cemetery - Hartsdale, NY 

12/29/07: Malcolm X, (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) and Dr. Betty Shabazz gravesites, Ferncliff Cemetery - Hartsdale, NY 12/29/07: Audubon Ballroom - Manhattan, NY 
12/29/06: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute - Birmingham, AL 
12/29/06: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church - Birmingham, AL 
12/29/06: Kelly Ingram Park - Birmingham, AL 
12/28/06: Edmund Pettus Bridge - Selma, AL 
12/28/06: National Voting Rights Museum and Institute - Selma, AL 
12/28/06: Dallas County Courthouse - Selma, Al 
12/28/06: Rosa Parks Museum - Montgomery, AL 
12/28/06: Civil Rights Memorial Center - Montgomery, AL 
12/28/06: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church - Montgomery, AL 
12/27/06: Bryant's Store, location of Emmett Till whistling a white woman - Money, MS 

12/28/05: Tallahatchie County Courthouse, location of the Murder Trial of Emmett Till - Sumner, MS 
12/28/05: National Civil Rights Museum (Lorraine Motel) - Memphis, TN 
12/28/05: Sun Records - Memphis, TN 12/28/05: Stax Records - Memphis, TN 
12/28/05: Met with Spirit Trickey, daughter of Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine, Little Rock Central High School - Little Rock, AR 
12/27/05: Little Rock Central High School - Little Rock, AR   

Historic Places Researched and Photographed

Listed by State

Alabama
Birmingham - Addie Mae Collins gravesite, Greenwood Cemetery 
Birmingham - Birmingham Civil Rights Institute 
Birmingham - Carol Denise McNair gravesite, Elmwood Cemetery 
Birmingham - Carole Rosamond Robertson gravesite, Greenwood Cemetery 
Birmingham - Cynthia Dionne Wesley gravesite, Greenwood Cemetery
Birmingham - Herman Sunny Blount aka Sun Ra gravesite, Elmwood Cemetery 
Birmingham - Kelly Ingram Park 
Birmingham - Sixteenth Street Baptist Church 

Haneville - Lowndes County Interpretive Center 
Haneville - Viola Liuzzo Memorial 

Montgomery - Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration 
Montgomery - National Memorial for Peace and Justice 
Montgomery - Civil Rights Memorial Center 
Montgomery - Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church 
Montgomery - Rosa Parks Museum 

Selma - Edmund Pettus Bridge 
Selma - Dallas County Courthouse 
Selma - National Voting Rights Museum and Institute (old and new) 

Tuscaloosa: EJI History Marker

Tuskegee - Booker T. Washington gravesite, Tuskegee University 
Tuskegee - George Washington Carver gravesite, Tuskegee University
Tuskegee - Nurse Eunice Rivers gravesite (did not locate), Greenwood Cemetery 

Arkansas
Little Rock - Little Rock Central High School 

Florida
Archer - Sheriff Bob Walker gravesite 

Bronson - Home of Sheriff Bob Walker 

Cedar Key - Slave Port of Entry  

Ft. Pierce - Zora Neal Hurston gravesite and cemetery 

Rosewood - Site of racial violence against African Americans 

Georgia
Albany - Albany Civil Rights Institute 

Atlanta - Ebenezer Baptist Church, National Historic Site and Preservation District 
Atlanta - Mausoleum wall Ralph Abernathy, Lincoln Cemetery 
Atlanta - MLK Jr. boyhood home, National Historic Site and Preservation District 
Atlanta - MLK Jr. Center for Nonviolent and Social Change, National Historic Site and Preservation District 
Atlanta - MLK Jr. Museum, National Historic Site and Preservation District 

Cuthbert - Cuthbert Water Tower Cuthbert, Lena Baker gravesite and cemetery 
Cuthbert - Mt. Vernon Baptist Church 
Cuthbert - Randolph County Georgia Superior Court (new) 
Cuthbert - Randolph County Georgia Superior Court (old) 

Hahira - Mary Turner gravesite area and History Marker 

Savannah - African American History Tour 
Savannah - Owen Thomas Home 

Illinois
Alsip - Emmett Till gravesite, Burr Oak Cemetery  
Alsip - Mamie Till gravesite, Burr Oak Cemetery 

Chicago - Chess Records 
Chicago - Etta Johnson's gravesite, Graceland Cemetery 
Chicago - George Pullman gravesite, Graceland Cemetery 
Chicago - Jack Johnson's gravesite, Graceland Cemetery 
Chicago - Robert's Temple Church of God in Christ 

Hillside - "Howlin' Wolf" Chester Burnett gravesite, Oakridge/Glen Oak Cemetery
 
Worth - Geneva Morganfield gravesite, Restvale Cemetery 
Worth - "Muddy Waters" McKinley Morganfield gravesite, Restvale Cemetery 

Kansas
Topeka - Brown v. Board of Education Historical Site 

Louisiana
Crown Point - Swamp Tour 

Metairie - Mahalia Jackson gravesite

New Orleans - J&M Recording Studio 
New Orleans - Louis Armstrong Park 
New Orleans - St. Augustine Catholic Church 
New Orleans - Tomb of Homer Plessy, St. Louis Cemetery 
New Orleans - Treme Street

New Orleans - William Frantz Public School 

Vacherie - Laura Plantation 
Vacherie - Oak Alley Plantation 

Maryland
Baltimore - Blacks in Wax Museum 
Baltimore - Frederick Douglass High School
Baltimore - Hattie Carroll gravesite, Baltimore National Cemetery 
Baltimore - Joseph Gans' gravesite, Mt. Auburn Cemetery 
Baltimore - Royal Theater Marquee Plaza 
Baltimore - Statue of Billie Holiday 

Cambridge - Dorchester County Court House 
Cambridge - Harriet Tubman's birthplace 
Cambridge - Scott's Chapel/Bucktown Methodist Church 

Easton - Frederick Douglass Statute Highland, Highland Beach 

Port Tobacco - St. Ignatius Catholic Church 

Suitland - Dr. Carter G. Woodson gravesite, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery 
Suitland - Dr. Charles Drew gravesite, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery 
Suitland - Joseph "Smokey Joe" Williams's gravesite, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery 
Suitland - Len Bias gravesite, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery 
Suitland - Van McCoy gravesite, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery Tuckahoe, Frederick Douglass Birthplace 

Mississippi
Glendora: (New) Emmett Till History Marker 

Greenwood - Robert Johnson History Marker and possible gravesite 

Jackson - Medgar Evers Home

Meridian - James Chaney's gravesite 

Money - Bryant's Store, location of Emmett Till whistling at white woman 

Philadelphia - Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman Memorial located at Mt. Nebo Missionary Baptist Church 

Ruleville - Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden and gravesite 

Sumner - Tallahatchie County Courthouse, location of the Emmett Till Murder Trial

Missouri
Kansas City - Buck O'Neil gravesite, Forest Hill Cemetery
Kansas City - Buck O'Neil Memorial, Forest Hill Cemetery 
Kansas City - Satchel Paige gravesite, Forest Hill Cemetery 
Kansas City - Shelby's Last Stand History Marker, Forest Hill Cemetery 

Normandy - Captain Wendell O. Pruitt gravesite, Saint Peters Cemetery 
Normandy - Charles A. Turpin gravesite, Saint Peters Cemetery
Normandy - Cool Papa Bell gravesite, Saint Peters Cemetery 
Normandy - Lloyd Lionel Gaines gravesite, Saint Peters Cemetery 
Normandy - Thomas M.J. Turpin gravesite, Saint Peters Cemetery 

St. Louis - Dred and Harriet Scott Statue 
St. Louis - Dred Scott gravesite, Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum 
St. Louis - Courthouse (old) 
St. Louis - Scott Joplin House  
St. Louis - St. Louis Arch 
St. Louis - William Tecumseh Sherman gravesite, Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum 

New York
Auburn - Harriet Tubman gravesite and family plot, Fort Hill Cemetery 

Bronx - Canada Lee's gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery 
Bronx - Celia Cruz's gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery 
Bronx - Duke Ellington's gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery 
Bronx - Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson Gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery 
Bronx - Jean Baptist Illinois Jacquet gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery 
Bronx - Lionel Hampton's gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery 
Bronx - Madam C.J. Walker gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery 
Bronx - Max Roach's gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery 
Bronx - Miles Davis gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery Brooklyn, Jackie Robinson gravesite, Cypress Hills Cemetery 

Brooklyn - Eubie Blake gravesite, Cypress Hills Cemetery 

Buffalo - Michigan Street Baptist Church 

Croton-on-Hudson, Lorraine Hansberry gravesite 

Farmingdale - John Coltrane gravesite, Pinelawn Memorial Park 

Harlem - Apollo Theater 
Harlem - Audubon Ballroom 

Hartsdale - Aaliyah Haughton gravesite, Ferncliff Cemetery 
Hartsdale - James Baldwin gravesite, Ferncliff Cemetery 
Hartsdale - Jean Baptist Illinois Jacques gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery 
Hartsdale - Malcolm X, (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) and Dr. Betty Shabazz gravesites, Ferncliff Cemetery 
Hartsdale - Paul Robeson gravesite, Ferncliff Cemetery 
Hartsdale - Thelonious Monk gravesite, Ferncliff Cemetery 

Manhattan - African American Burial Ground National Monument 

Queens - Mount Judah Cemetery (Looked for grave of Andrew Goodman. Did not find him.) 

Rochester - Frederick Douglass gravesite and family plot, Mt. Hope Cemetery 
Rochester - Susan B. Anthony's gravesite and family plot, Mt. Hope Cemetery 

North Carolina
Charlotte - Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture 

Fayetteville - Market House 

Monroe - Robert F. Williams, Hillcrest Cemetery 

Roanoke - Freedmen's Colony, Roanoke Island 

Oklahoma
Tulsa - Black Wall Street 
Tulsa - Greenwood Cultural Center 
Tulsa - Mabel B. Heritage House 
Tulsa - Mt. Zion Baptist Church 
Tulsa - Vernon AME Church 

Pennsylvania
Bala Cynwyd - Grover Washington, Jr. gravesite 
Bala Cynwyd - Teddy Pendergrass gravesite 

Carlisle - Sarah Collins Rudolph and Junie Collins “Peavy” Williams, sisters of Addie Mae Collins panel discussion, Dickinson College 

Collingsdale - Marian Anderson's gravesite, Eden Cemetery 
Collingsdale - Octavius Valentine Catto's gravesite, Eden Cemetery 
Collingsdale - Rev. Charles Albert Tindley gravesite, Eden Cemetery 
Collingsdale - William Still gravesite, Eden Cemetery

Philadelphia - Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. National Office 
Philadelphia - Mother Bethel AME Church 
Philadelphia - Uptown Theater 

Pittsburgh - Charles "Teenie" Harris gravesite, Homewood Cemetery 
Pittsburgh - Josh Gibson gravesite, Allegheny Cemetery 
Pittsburgh - Marcus P. Blakemore gravesite, Allegheny Cemetery 
Pittsburgh - William "Gus" Greenlee gravesite, Allegheny Cemetery 

West Chester - Bill Bailey gravesite, Rolling Green Memorial Park 
West Chester - Pearl Bailey gravesite, Rolling Green Memorial Park 

South Carolina
Charleston - Angel Oak Tree 
Charleston - Decoration/Memorial Day 
Charleston - Drayton Hall Plantation  
Charleston - Ft. Sumter 

North Augusta - Frank Wills gravesite, initiator of the Watergate investigation Orangeburg, History Marker 

Walterboro - Walterboro Army Airfield Memorial Park 

Tennessee
Memphis - Stax Records 
Memphis - Sun Records

Nashville - Afro-American History and Genealogy Society National Conference Memphis, National Civil Rights Museum "Lorraine Motel" 

Texas
Galveston - Ashton Villa 

Virginia
Alexandria - Black History Museum 
Alexandria - Buffalo Soldiers gravesite, Alexandria National Cemetery 
Alexandria - Franklin and Armfield Dealers in Slaves Museum 

Alexandria - Frederick Douglass Cemetery
Alexandria - Freedman's Cemetery Demolition and Archaeological Investigation 
Alexandria - Lt. Colonel Alexander Jefferson, Tuskegee Airman, Charles Houston Recreation Center 

Appomattox - Appomattox Court House 

Arlington - Joe Louis gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery 
Arlington - John F. Kennedy gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery 
Arlington - Matthew Henson gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery 
Arlington - Medgar Evers gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery 
Arlington - Robert F. Kennedy gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery 
Arlington - Robert Peary gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery 
Arlington - Thurgood Marshall gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery 
Arlington - Warren Burger gravesite, Arlington National Cemetery 

Bedford - The National D-Day Memorial 

Bowling Green - Richard and Mildred Loving gravesites and cemetery 
Bowling Green - Caroline County Courthouse. Location of the Lovings' detainment

Capron - Dred Scott and Blow Family History Marker 

Charlottesville - Monticello Home of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings 

Clover - Henrietta Lacks family gravesites and cemetery 

Danville - Wendell O. Scott Sr. History Marker 
Danville - Wendell O. Scott Sr. gravesite 

Emporia - Greenville Training School 

Farmville - Robert Russa Moton Museum 

Fredericksburg - Slave Auction Block Fredericksburg, U.S. National Slavery Museum 

Gloucester - Irene Morgan Kirkaldy gravesite, Rosewell Cemetery 

Hanover - Janie Porter Barrett/Barrett Correctional Center 

Hampton - History Marker, First Africans in Virginia. Point Comfort, Hampton, VA 

Petersburg - First Baptist Church 
Petersburg - Richard "Dick" Poplar gravesite, Blanford Cemetery 

Norfolk - Carl Brashear gravesite, Woodlawn Memorial Gardens 
Norfolk - Civil and Spanish American War Colored Troop Memorial, West Point Cemetery section of Elmwood Cemetery 
Norfolk - Chrysler Museum of Art. Saints and Dragons, Icons from Byzantium to Russia 

Richmond - A.D. Price Funeral Home 
Richmond - Arthur Robert Ashe Jr gravesite and family plot, Woodlawn Cemetery 
Richmond - Eggelston Hotel 
Richmond - Jackson Ward 
Richmond - John Jasper gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery 
Richmond - Maggie Walker gravesite and family plot, Evergreen Cemetery 
Richmond - Maggie Walker's Home 
Richmond - Museum of the Confederacy 
Richmond - Oakwood Cemetery 
Richmond - St. John's Episcopal Church 
Richmond - St. Luke Building 
Richmond - Virginia State Capitol 
Richmond - Winston Edmunds gravesite, Woodlawn Cemetery 

Saluda - Middlesex County Courthouse 
Saluda - Morgan v. Virginia History Marker 

Shiloh - Ralph Bunche High School 

Smithfield - Schoolhouse Museum 

Stony Creek - Sappony Baptist Church 

Suffolk - Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge 

Washington, DC
Washington, DC - African American Civil War Memorial and Museum   
Washington, DC - Charles Young Elementary School   
Washington, DC - Dunbar High School
Washington, DC - Emancipation Proclamation viewing - National Archives 
Washington, DC - Home of Frederick Douglass 
Washington, DC - Howard Theater 
Washington, DC - Langston Golf Course 
Washington, DC - National Museum of African American History and Culture 
Washington, DC - Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial 
Washington, DC - National Mall 
Washington, DC - Titanic Memorial Washington, DC - United States Capitol

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