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An African-American Heritage Trail ™ ™ An African-American Heritage Trail Day 1 - FREDERICK DOUGLASS & THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER Day 2 - I HAVE A DREAM & LINCOLN THEATRE Arrive in Washington DC and meet a licensed Study Leader at Enjoy breakfast at the hotel this morning. Drive by Freedom Union Station. See the Philip Randolph Statue, founder of the Plaza, and the Willard Hotel where Martin Luther King, Jr. Sleeping Car Porter’s Union. Stop at Lincoln Park. This historic wrote the finishing touches to his I Have A Dream speech, the park celebrates the abolition of slavery in the District of Whitlaw Hotel, and other significant historic African American Columbia and features the Emancipation Proclamation statue Heritage sites. Stop for a photo opportunity of The White and the Mary McLeod Bethune statue. Visit the Frederick House. Arrive at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Douglass National Historic Site – Cedar Hill – dedicated to to see the King Mural by Don Miles, a pictorial documentation preserving the legacy of the most famous 19th century African of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Take a Docent American. Visitors to the site learn about his efforts to abolish Led Tour of the African American Civil War Museum and see slavery and his struggle for rights for all oppressed people. In the African American Civil War Memorial. At the center the visitor center the 17-minute film ‘Fighter for Freedom’ is of a granite-paved plaza, encircled on three sides by the shown on the hour and half-hour. Exhibits, a bookstore and Wall of Honor, is the Spirit of Freedom sculpture. Continue restrooms are also available for guests at the site. Visit the with an African American Heritage Tour of The Shaw National Museum of American History where a grand staircase Neighborhood, named after Robert Gould Shaw who was the connects the first and second floors. The galleries display over 3 white commander of the famed black 54th Massachusetts million objects including a special state-of-the-art gallery Regiment. Drive by the Thurgood Marshall Center, located in showcasing the original Star Spangled Banner. See the flag that the historic Twelfth Street YMCA building, the former home of inspired the Star Spangled Banner, Dorothy’s Ruby Red Slippers, the first full service YMCA for African Americans in the nation. First Ladies’ inaugural gowns, quilts, cars, locomotives, and Drive by Howard University, one of the most prestigious, much, much more. Greensboro Lunch Counter is a shiny historically black universities in the country. Drive by Lincoln chrome lunch counter from the old Woolworth’s store in Theatre, which went through renovations to restore it to the Greensboro and is enshrined today behind plexiglass in the magnificent facility originally known as “Black Broadway” Smithsonian. Every day, thousands of visitors walk past the between 1920 and 1950. Drive by Ben’s Chili Bowl, with its counter’s turquoise and pink seats. See the Roy Wilkins NAACP high-arched ceilings, character, and plenty of history. Built in Wedgewood Anti-Slavery Medallion and anti-slavery almanac. 1909, the building first housed a silent movie house, the Also see the hand-modeled and molded, unglazed red Minnehaha Theater. Later, Harry Beckley, one of D.C.’s first earthenware pitcher honoring Frederick Douglass. Take a Black police detectives, converted it into a pool hall before the glimpse at Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids lunchboxes before Ali family bought it on August 22, 1958, and Ben’s Chili Bowl enjoying a scrumptious buffet dinner. Stop at the U.S. Air Force was born. Drive by Bohemian Caverns. In 1926 a little jazz club Memorial and the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial (Iwo Jima was opened in the basement of a drugstore located at 11th and Statue) before checking in to our local hotel. (Meals: D) U St. called Club Caverns. The Caverns have brought a great many artists to its stage, but it was the immortals that built this house and its legacy, Washington's Sons: Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Louis Armstrong, Day 5 - MARYLAND AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM & Ramsey Lewis, Les McCann, Miles Davis, Shirley Horn, John TOUR Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Wynton Marsalis, Thelonious Monk, Enjoy breakfast at the hotel this morning prior to departing for Charles Mingus, and Bill Cosby. Tour the National Museum of Baltimore. Meet our Baltimore Guide and visit the Reginald F. African Art, the only museum in the United States dedicated Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History, exclusively to the collection, exhibition, and study of the Baltimore’s newest premier facility highlighting the history and traditional arts of sub-Saharan Africa. Enjoy dinner this evening accomplishments of Maryland’s African American community. at a local favorite. Stop at the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Enjoy lunch and free time today at The Inner Harbor of National Memorial illuminated at night. Stop at the Franklin D. Baltimore. Baltimore’s Harbor place, a twin glass pavilion, Roosevelt Memorial. Stop at the National World War II offering some of the finest shopping and food in the city. The Memorial. (Meals: B, D) Inner Harbor offers many attractions and wonderful waterfront photo opportunities. Meet our guide at Aquarium Drive and Day 3 - NMAAHC begin an African American Heritage tour of Baltimore. After breakfast enjoy a full day at the National Museum of The Baltimore Civil War Museum features exhibits, interpretive African American History and Culture. NMAAHC is the only programs and living history presentations focusing on national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of Baltimore's roles in the Underground Railroad and the Civil African American life, history, and culture. It was established by War. The Orchard Street Church has housed the Baltimore an Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to Urban League since 1992. On Pratt Street, outside the Edward promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans. A. Garmatz Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, stands the To date, the Museum has collected more than 36,000 artifacts statue of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a and nearly 100,000 individuals have become members. Enjoy Baltimore native son and civil rights lawyer who reached the lunch on own while visiting the Museum. An included dinner pinnacle of the U.S. justice system. On her visits to Baltimore, tonight at a local DC favorite establishment. (Meals: B, D) Billie Holiday sang at a variety of nightspots, including the Club Day 4 - HARREIT TUBMAN & MARYLAND STYLE CRAB FEAST Astoria. It is said that when Billie performed, she demanded Enjoy breakfast at the hotel this morning. Meet our guide at absolute attention from her audience. A statue and park named Sailwinds Visitor’s Center and embark on the journey of the in her honor, The Billie Holiday Park, are located in Baltimore. “Underground Railroad,” past Stanley Institute, Church Creek, See the Frederick Douglass – Isaac Myers historic building. and Madison. Next, it’s on to Blackwater National Wildlife Drive by the Frederick Douglass Row Houses. Enjoy a Seafood Refuge, to see up close the terrain slaves traveled under the dinner on Baltimore Inner Harbor. (Meals: B, D) cover of night. Enjoy lunch included at the Pavillions at the Day 6 - AFRICAN AMERICANS AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center. Other Enjoy breakfast at the hotel this morning prior to checking out. sites will include Bucktown and Scott’s Chapel, and Harriet Baggage handling included. Meet our Guide to tour Arlington Tubman historical landmarks. Bucktown General Store is National Cemetery, where there are 17 African American where Harriet Tubman displayed her first public act of defiance Medal of Honor Recipients buried, including Brig. Gen. against slavery. On our way back to the City, enjoy a Maryland Benjamin O. Davis Sr., the first African American General in the Style Crab Feast complete with steamed hard shell crab, hush U.S. Army. The list includes educators, scientists, men of puppies, fried chicken, corn on the cob, and plenty of cold beer! medicine, Civil Rights leaders, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood (Meals: B, D) Marshall, Tuskegee Airmen, and many more who dedicated service to The U.S. Enjoy lunch on own at Pentagon City Mall before departing for home. (Meals: B) 2Night/3 FROM $599 pp double occupancy Day from $359/ To receive a detailed or customized proposal of this tour, call 800-769-5912 ext. 3; or email: [email protected] Mid-Atlantic Tours & Receptive Services Post Office Box 1390 Stephens City, VA 22655 Phone: 540-869-1864 Fax: 540-869-1826 .
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