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       |   | Current view of Maiden Lane | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of where Hughson's Tavern once stood | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of Execution Grounds: Foley Square | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of Fraunces Tavern | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view: the site of John Street Methodist Church | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of 10 Church Street, site of the Black Brigades' barracks | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of African Free School site | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Eastville Ave. in an 1873 Atlas of Long Island | Long Island Studies Institute, Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Current view of the Tontine Coffeehouse site | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of Abyssinian Baptist Church | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | A current view of the African Burial Ground Memorial | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of St. Philips Episcopal Church | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of African Grove Theater site | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of the Seneca Village site | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of 236 Church St., former offices of Freedom's Journal | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of where Catherine Ferguson's home stood | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Historic marker honoring Pierre Toussaint, St. Patrick's Old Cathedral | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of where Downing's Oyster House stood | © Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of where the Great Dock once was | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of the Five Points intersection | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of James McCune Smith Pharmacy site | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of the site of the Tappan Brothers' offices | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of where the Colored Orphan Asylum once stood | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view: the site of David Ruggles' House | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of 143 Nassau Street, once site where Tubman would bring people fleeing on the underground railroad. | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | A map showing present-day Rikers Island | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of the Fort Amsterdam site | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of David Ruggles' House, where Frederick Douglass was sheltered | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of Marcus Garvey Memorial Park | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of Langston Hughes' former home | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of Duke Ellington Memorial | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of the Mother A.M.E. Zion Church on 137th Street | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of 369th Armory | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | A current view inside the Studio Museum in Harlem | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of the Hunterfly road houses, Weeksville | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Bridge Street AWME Church today | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of Louis & Lucille Armstong's home | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | A map showing Sandy Ground in the present | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of the site of Sojourner Truth's former home | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | A current view of the Audubon Ballroom | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of Shiloh Presbyterian Church | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of Wall Street | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of where the African Society for Mutual Relief once stood | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of the Theodore Wright house | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of Restoration Plaza, Bedford-Stuyvesant | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of Minetta Lane, once central to the Land of the Blacks | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of a downtown area once supplied with water by the Manhattan Company | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Current view of the site of the Slave Market | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, 1921 | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Samuel Ballton House | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Charles B. Ray | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | City Hall and Great Dock, 1679 | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Death of Captain Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad, July 1839 | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Engraving of James McCune Smith | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division/The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Historic View of Ebbets Field | Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ebbets1913OpeningDay.jpg | 
      
       |   | Shot of Ebbets Apartments, formerly Ebbets Field | Wikipedia | 
      
       |   | Fernando Wood, Mayor of the City of New York | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Five Points: Stereoscopic Photo | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Fort Amsterdam and village, New York | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Founders of the AME Zion Church in New York | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Fraunces' Tavern, N.Y.C., 1777 | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Current View of Harlem Community Art Center | Columbia University | 
      
       |   | Harlem's 125th Street, 1949 | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Harriet Tubman and Family | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Henry Highland Garnet | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Hofstra University North Campus | Courtesy of Hofstra's Department of Special Collections - University Archives. | 
      
       |   | Ira Aldridge as "Othello" | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Lewis Tappan | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Gramercy Park today | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | 369th Armory | Military Photograph Collection/The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Current view of Abolitionist Place site | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Abolitionist Place, Brooklyn. Fulton and Duffield Street. | Mid-Manhattan Library/Picture Collection/The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | African-American congregation in front of Abyssinian Baptist Church at Waverly Place, New York City, c. 1907 | Library of Congress | 
      
       |   | African Free School, engraving | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division/ The New York Public Library. | 
      
       |   | James Hewlett as Richard III | Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library. | 
      
       |   | Portrait of Juliet Noel (Mrs. Pierre Toussaint) | © Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library | 
      
       |   | Arthur Tappan | © Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library | 
      
       |   | The Audubon Ballroom | © AP Photo | 
      
       |   | View of Bedford-Stuyvesant | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Black Brigades. Book of Negroes, Loyalist refugees from New York, in 1783. | © Nova Scotia Museum 2008. All rights reserved. Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax | 
      
       |   | Where Bridge Street AWME Church once stood | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | African Burial Ground | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Catherine Ferguson | © Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library | 
      
       |   | The riots in New York: destruction of the Colored Orphan Asylum | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | David Ruggles | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | George Downing’s Oyster House | © Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Art Resource | 
      
       |   | The riots in New York : conflict between the military and the rioters in First Avenue | Mid-Manhattan Library/Picture Collection/ The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Duke Ellington (1899-1974) | © Private Collection/Bridgeman Art Library | 
      
       |   | Execution Grounds:  Foley Square | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Midsummer in the Five Points. | Mid-Manhattan Library/Picture Collection/The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Fraunces Tavern - Long Room | © AP Photo | 
      
       |   | View of New Amsterdam | © Collection of the New-York Historical Society/ The Bridgeman Art Library | 
      
       |   | The Castello Plan, New Amsterdam in 1660 | © Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library | 
      
       |   | Statue of Adam Clayton Powell | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Langston Hughes with others overlooking St. Nicholas Avenue. | Regina Andrews Photograph Collection/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Photographs and Prints Division/ The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Harriet Tubman; "The Moses of her people" | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/General Research and Reference Division/The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Hughson’s Tavern | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Illustration of James Varick | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Peter Williams, c.1810 (oil on canvas) | © Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library | 
      
       |   | Land of the Blacks | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Langston Hughes    June 1958  on the steps in front of his house in Harlem. | © Robert W. Kelley/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images | 
      
       |   | Lewis Latimer photograph | Queens Borough Library, Long Island Division. Latimer Family Papers. | 
      
       |   | Photo of Louis Armstrong | © AP Photo | 
      
       |   | Marcus Garvey in full uniform | © Hulton Archive/Getty Images | 
      
       |   | Pierre Toussaint (1778-1853) c.1825 | © Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library | 
      
       |   | Rikers Island - Black soldiers, Civil War, training | Library of Congress | 
      
       |   | Photo of Oyster Workers, 1894. | Courtesy Alice Austen Collection, Staten Island Historical Society. | 
      
       |   | Arturo "Arthur" Schomburg | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture /General Research and Reference Division/The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Seneca Village | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Portrait of Henry Highland Garnet | Humanities and Social Sciences Library/Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs/The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | The Slave Market | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | New York in 1712 | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | St. Philip’s Episcopal Church. John F.E. Prud’homme engraving after William Bayley image. | © Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library | 
      
       |   | Street Story Quilt,  Parts 1,2 3. 1. The Accident, 2. The Fire, 3. The Home Coming. 1985 | Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. | 
      
       |   | Laying of the Water Pipes | ©  Curriculum Concepts International | 
      
       |   | Runaway slave posters | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture /General Research and Reference Division/The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Tontine Coffee House, c.1797 (oil on linen), | © Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library | 
      
       |   | The Castello Plan, New Amsterdam in 1660 | © Collection of the New-York Historical Society/Bridgeman Art Library | 
      
       |   | Portrait of a woman | © AP Photo /Weeksville Society | 
      
       |   | Methodist Church, John Street, 1768 | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | New York Committee of Vigilance, 1st Annual Report | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | New York slave market about 1730 | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Peter Williams, the old colored sexton of the John St. Methodist Church | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Playbill from the African Grove Theatre in Greenwich Village, ca. 1821 | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Rev. Samuel Cornish | © Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Art Resource | 
      
       |   | Historic Photo of Jackie Robinson | Columbia University Archives - Rare Books and Manuscripts | 
      
       |   | Section of Wall Street palisade | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | St. Philip's P.E. Church, 1925 | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Three-quarter length portrait of Sojourner Truth | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Photographs and Prints Division/The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Tontine Coffee House, N.Y.C., 1820 | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Portrait of Samuel Ballton | Courtesy of the Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association. | 
      
       |   | Samuel Ballton House | Courtesy of the Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association. | 
      
       |   | Site of Bethel AME Church of Amityville | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Bethel AME Church, Amityville | Amityville Historical Society | 
      
       |   | View of the Booker T. Washington House | Friends of the Booker T. Washington House | 
      
       |   | Another current view of the Booker T. Washington House | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Portrait of Booker T. Washington | Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division, LC-USZ62-49568 | 
      
       |   | 1797, Map of the Town of Brookhaven | William Floyd Estate, Fire Island National Seashore, National Park Service. | 
      
       |   | Published text of a speech by Frederick Douglass | Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library:  Alexander Gumby Collection | 
      
       |   | Portrait of Duke Ellington | Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library:  Alexander Gumby Collection | 
      
       |   | Current view of the St. David AME Zion Church, Eastville, Sag Harbor | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | St. David AME Zion Church | Sag Harbor Historical Society | 
      
       |   | Current view of Ralph Ellison Memorial | Columbia University | 
      
       |   | Historic Image of Ralph Ellison | Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division | 
      
       |   | Portrait of Frederick Douglass | Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library:  Alexander Gumby Collection | 
      
       |   | Current view of Freetown, Town of East Hampton | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Chapel at Freetown | Courtesy of the East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection | 
      
       |   | Envelope for Donations to UNIA | Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library:  Alexander Gumby Collection | 
      
       |   | Student Sculptor at Work | National Archives and Records Adminstration | 
      
       |   | Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children's Zone Founder | Harlem Children's Zone | 
      
       |   | Current view of Harlem Children's Zone | Harlem Children's Zone | 
      
       |   | Historic view of E 125th Street & Madison Avenue | New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Martin Luther King, Jr. at Hofstra University | Courtesy of Hofstra's Department of Special Collections - University Archives. | 
      
       |   | "They're Our Kids!" by Langston Hughes | Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library:  Alexander Gumby Collection | 
      
       |   | Portrait of John B. Russwurm | New York Public Library Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Lakeville AME Church in 1975 | Courtesy of NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Valley Road Historic District, Manhasset, Nassau County. | 
      
       |   | Lakeville community, Manhasset | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Lakeville AME Zion Church | Courtesy of NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Valley Road Historic District, Manhasset, Nassau County | 
      
       |   | Lakeville AME Zion Church today | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Portrait of Younger Langston Hughes | Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library:  Alexander Gumby Collection | 
      
       |   | View of Latting's Hundred | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Latting's Hundred Parlor | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Symbolic objects bundle | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Joseph Lloyd Manor today | Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. | 
      
       |   | Joseph Lloyd Manor in 1910 | Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. | 
      
       |   | Current view of Minton's Playhouse | Columbia University | 
      
       |   | Daytime view of Minton's | Columbia University | 
      
       |   | Louis Armstrong | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division | 
      
       |   | Rocky Point today | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Remains of Rocky Point | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Ernest Hart Cabin (ca. 1931) | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Bethel AME Church of Setauket | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Jacob and Hannah Hart House | Three Village Historical Society | 
      
       |   | The riots in New York : conflict between the military and the rioters in First Avenue | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | View of Five Points | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Portrait of Frederick Douglass | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Photographs and Prints Division/The New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Henry Highland Garnet Colorized | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | James Varick | NYPL Digital Gallery | 
      
       |   | Advertisement for a UNIA Convention | Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library:  Alexander Gumby Collection | 
      
       |   | Current view of West Indian Day Parade | Flickr | 
      
       |   | Historic view of West Indian Day Parade | New York Public Library | 
      
       |   | Current view of the Old Mastic House at the William Floyd Estate | Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University | 
      
       |   | Old Mastic House at the William Floyd Estate, ca. 1792 | William Floyd Estate, Fire Island National Seashore, National Park Service. |