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• A Separate Flame: Western Branch: The First African-American Public Library

  Louisville, Kentucky.

• A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum

  Our mission is to promote, honor and celebrate the legacy of A. Philip Randolph, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and contributions made by African-Americans to America's labor movement; with a significant focus on the African American Railroad Employee.

• A. Philip Randolph/Pullman Porter Museum Gallery

  Chicago, Illinois museum celebrating this leader in the African American labor movement and the African American Railroad Attendant.

  • Pullman Porter National Historic Registry of the African-American Railroad Employees

• African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County

• African American Monuments, Museums and Memorials

  Links to African American museums, monuments and cultural sites.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• African American Museum of Iowa

• African American Resources

  From the Georgia Archives.

• African-American Cultural & Genealogical Society Of Illinois, Inc. Museum

• Afro-American Sources in Virginia - A Guide To Manuscripts

• Alabama Department of Archives & History: Search Results - African American

• Amherstburg Freedom Museum

  Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada. The Amherstburg Freedom Museum is located in Amherstburg, Ontario, a chief entry point into Canada for those escaping slavery in the U.S. The Museum consists of two historic buildings and a main exhibition building that preserves the rich Black heritage and history of the region.

• Amistad Research Center

• Amistad Research Center

  The Amistad Research Center is committed to collecting, preserving, and providing open access to original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America's ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights. At Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

• Association of African American Museums

• Black Archives of Mid-America

  A collaboration between the Black Archives of Mid-America Inc. and Kansas City Public Library, funded by the Missouri State Library.

• Black Family Research: Records of Post-Civil War Federal Agencies at the National Archives

  By Reginald Washington, NARA Reference Information Paper 108.

• Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia

  Richmond, Virginia.

• Black Loyalist Heritage Centre

  Part of Nova Scotia Museum, Canada. The Black Loyalist Heritage Centre tells the story of the world

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania Department: African-American Genealogy

• Central Pennsylvania African American Museum

  To establish, preserve and maintain a collection of objects, artifacts, arts, papers, books, photographs, etc. that document and describe the history and culture of African Americans in the New World, with emphasis on our local and regional (Reading, Berks and surrounding counties) African American history and culture, and to create an appropriate environment for exhibition of the collection to foster understanding of the history and culture of Africans in the New World, and to encourage education and research. The Mission of the museum also includes the preservation of the Underground Railroad located on the lower level of the Old Bethel A.M.E. Church in Reading, Pennsylvania.