It's #Monday 🎉 but it's also #MLK2023 #MLKJrDay
If you're in #NewYork, take a walk through these NY landmarks that are played a role in #blackhistory because #BlackHistoryIsUSHistory
https://www.alittlebithuman.com/new-york-black-history-sites-of-resistance/
The Former Site of the Slave Market on #WallStreet #NewYork #NewYorkCity
On December 13, 1711, a slave market opened just a few blocks from the South Street Seaport. The market was made to consolidate the existing slave trade into one place.
The Site of the 1712 Uprising on Maiden Lane
April 6th, 1712, a group of about 20 enslaved and free Black people gathered together, armed with guns, hatchets, and whatever other weapons they could find. They set fire to a building on Maiden Lane, near #Broadway. #NewYork
The #AfricanAmerican Burial Ground
A five- to six-acre cemetery near Collect Pond (which has since been filled) became the final resting place for an estimated 15,000 free and enslaved Black people between 1712 and 1794 who were barred from being buried in the city’s cemetery.
Hotel Theresa #NewYork
This 13-story hotel opened in 1913. At its opening, it was a whites-only hotel like many others during this segregationist era. That ended in 1937 when a Black businessman by the name of Love B. Woods bought the hotel and abolished its #Segregation policy.
Studio Museum #NewYork
Opened in 1968, the Studio Museum was the first of its kind to showcase art created by local #Blackartists and Black artists from around the world. At the time, Black artists struggled to have their work accepted by other galleries and #museum in the city.
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