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The National Park System preserves the history and contributions of African Americans as part of the nation's history. Over the years, the staff of the
National Park Service The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propertie ...
has reflected the nation's social history. Among the first
African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
s who influenced the course of the National Parks were: * Early Superintendents (not fully inclusive) **
Charles Young Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...
: He served as an early Superintendent of
Sequoia National Park Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects of forested mountainous terrain. Encompassing ...
in 1903. As a Captain in the 9th Cavalry Regiment, he was directed to take two troops of
Buffalo soldiers Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the Black Cavalry by Native American tribes who fought in t ...
to the Giants Grove of Sequoia and protect the trees and the park from damage. While there, the two companies completed construction of a road to the Giant's Grove, making public access possible.Sequoia National Park
/ref> ** Robert Stanton, National Capital Parks (East) (1970–1971)Historic Listing of National Park Service Officials, USDI, NPS, May 1, 1991, by Harold Danz. Updates after publication by Public Affairs. ** Georgia Ellard, Rock Creek Park (1977–1988) ** Garry Traynham, Allegheny Portage (1990–1995) * Deputy Directors ** Donald Murphy, (2002–2005) * Director ** Robert Stanton, (1997–2001)


Parks

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African Burial Ground National Monument African Burial Ground National Monument is a monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way (Elk Street) in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Its main building is the Ted Weiss Federal Building at 290 Broadway. ...
, New York, NY * Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, Arlington, VA *
Booker T. Washington National Monument The Booker T. Washington National Monument is a National Monument near the community of Hardy, Virginia, and is located entirely in rural Franklin County, Virginia. It preserves portions of the 207-acre (0.90 km2) tobacco farm on which educa ...
, Hardy, VA *
Boston African American National Historic Site The Boston African American National Historic Site, in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts's Beacon Hill neighborhood, interprets 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th-century African-American community, connected ...
, Boston, MA *
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site ''Brown v. Board of Education'' National Historical Park was established in Topeka, Kansas, on October 26, 1992, by the United States Congress to commemorate the landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case ''Brown v. Board of Educatio ...
, Topeka, KS * Cane River Creole National Historical Park, Natchez, LA *
Colonial National Historical Park Colonial National Historical Park is located in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia and is operated by the National Park Service of the United States government. The park protects and interprets several sites relating to the Colony of Virginia ...
, Yorktown, VA (Jamestown African Americans) *
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio that commemorates three important historical figures— Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar—and the ...
, Dayton, OH (Paul L. Dunbar House) * Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Washington, D.C. * Fort Davis National Historic Site, Fort Davis, TX (Buffalo Soldiers) * Fort Scott National Historic Site, Fort Scott, KS (Kansas 1st Colored Dragoons) * Fort Smith National Historic Site, Fort Smith, AR (from slavery to Parker's Court) * Gateway Arch National Park, St. Louis, MO (Black Frontiersman) * George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Washington's Birthplace, VA (Washington's Slaves, Indentured Servants, & Free Blacks) *
George Washington Carver National Monument George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service in Newton County, Missouri. The national monument was founded on July 14, 1943, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who dedicated $30,000 to the monument. It was the fir ...
, Diamond, MO *
Guadalupe Mountains National Park Guadalupe Mountains National Park is an American national park in the Guadalupe Mountains, east of El Paso, Texas. The mountain range includes Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas at , and El Capitan used as a landmark by travelers on the ro ...
, Salt Flat, TX (Buffalo Soldiers) * Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV (Frederick Douglass Visit) *
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in southeastern Berks County, near Elverson, Pennsylvania, is an example of an American 19th century rural iron plantation, whose operations were based around a charcoal-fired cold-blast iron blast furn ...
, Hopewell, PA (African Americans) * Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, New Orleans, LA *
Lincoln Home National Historic Site Lincoln Home National Historic Site preserves the Springfield, Illinois home and related historic district where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1844 to 1861, before becoming the 16th president of the United States. The presidential memorial inclu ...
, Springfield, IL *
Lincoln Memorial The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial built to honor the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument, and is in the ...
, Washington, D.C. * Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, AR * Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, Richmond, VA *
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park covers about 35 acres (0.14 km2) and includes several sites in Atlanta, Georgia related to the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Within the park is his boyhood h ...
, Atlanta, GA *
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is a national memorial located in West Potomac Park next to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It covers and includes the ''Stone of Hope'', a granite statue of Civil Rights Movement le ...
, Washington, D.C. *
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site preserves the house of Mary McLeod Bethune, located in Northwest Washington, D.C., at 1318 Vermont Avenue NW. National Park Service rangers offer tours of the home, and a video about B ...
, Washington, D.C. * New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, New Orleans, LA *
Nicodemus National Historic Site Nicodemus National Historic Site, located in Nicodemus, Kansas, United States, preserves, protects and interprets the only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the American Civil War ...
, Nicodemus, KS * Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, Put-in-Bay, OH (Black Sailors) *
Petersburg National Battlefield Petersburg National Battlefield is a National Park Service unit preserving sites related to the American Civil War Siege of Petersburg (1864–65). The Battlefield is centered on the city of Petersburg, Virginia, and also includes outlying compon ...
, Petersburg, VA *
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial The Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial is a memorial dedicated in 1994 recognizing the dead of the Port Chicago disaster, and the critical role played by Port Chicago, California during World War II, in serving as the main facility ...
, Concord NWS, Concord, CA *
Richmond National Battlefield Park The Richmond National Battlefield Park commemorates 13 American Civil War sites around Richmond, Virginia, which served as the capital of the Confederate States of America for most of the war. The park connects certain features within the city wit ...
, Richmond, VA *
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is located in San Francisco, California, United States. The park includes a fleet of historic vessels, a visitor center, a maritime museum, and a library/research facility. The park used to be r ...
, San Francisco, CA (African American Maritime History) *
Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail is a National Historic Trail in Alabama. It commemorates and marks the journey of the participants of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches in support of the Voting Rights Act. History The Selma t ...
, Montgomery, Lowndes & Dallas Counties, AL *
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve The Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve is a U.S. National Preserve in Jacksonville, Florida. It comprises of wetlands, waterways, and other habitats in northeastern Duval County. Managed by the National Park Service in cooperation with th ...
, Jacksonville, FL (Kingsley Plantation) *
Tuskegee Airman National Historic Site Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, commemorates the contributions of African-American airmen in World War II. Moton Field was the site of primary flight training for the pioneering pilots known as the Tus ...
, Tuskegee, AL * Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, Tuskegee, AL *
Virgin Islands National Park The Virgin Islands National Park is an American national park preserving about 60% of the land area of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands, as well as more than of adjacent ocean, and nearly all of Hassel Island, just off the Charlo ...
, St.Johns, VI.


See also

* Canada **
African-Canadian Heritage Tour This is a List of Ontario Tourist Routes throughout the province, which are designated to highlight places of cultural, environmental, or social importance. It is currently unknown if the majority of these trails are still listed since many of the ...
**
List of black Canadians This is a list of notable Black Canadians, inclusive of multiracial people who are of partially Black African descent. A *Elamin Abdelmahmoud, CBC Radio host * Wayne Adams, first black MLA in Nova Scotia, Liberal *Lovell Adams-Gray, actor *Olu ...
**
North American Black Historical Museum Amherstburg Freedom Museum, previously known as 'the North American Black Historical Museum', is located in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada. It is a community-based, non-profit museum that tells the story of African-Canadians' history and contributi ...
** Slavery in Canada * United States ** African American Historic Places ** African Americans in France ** Buffalo Soldier * General **
African diaspora The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from native Africans or people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the West and Central Africans who were e ...
**
Black people Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid to dark brown complexion. Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in s ...
** List of topics related to Black and African people


References

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Bibliography

*Savage, Beth L. (Ed.) ''African American Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places'' National Park Service, Preservation Press, 1994


External links


NPS African American Heritage – Places of Struggle, Community and TriumphAfrican American Heritage – NPS Cultural Resources


African-American historic places National Historic Sites of the United States National Park Service