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African-American Heritage Tours : Anchored in Hampton, Virginia
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2008 Tour Destinations - Heritage Sites and
Venues, U.S. Canada and Mexico
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“ The following Tours and Destinations can be
customized
and independently scheduled for
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
upon request.”
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(Click Map Areas or Menu on the Right for Details)
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Underground Railroad Trails
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Tubman
Route:
(Delaware, Md., Virginia, Pennsylvania, Niagara Falls and St.
Charles, Ontario Canada)
- Birthplace Harriet
Tubman
- Underground
Railroad Museum and
Research Center
- Place of Tubman's
last home and gravesite
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- New England
States - Nova Scotia Canada
- Black Cultural
Center - Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
- Beacon Hill -
Boston
- Amistad - at Connecticut
- Heritage Sites at Portland, Maine
- Martha's Vineyard
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Underground
Railroad - Ontario, Canada (Freedom Trail)
- Amherstburg - Early Black Settlers
- Buxton, Chatham Museum
- African-American Museum of North America
- John Freeman Walls
Historic Site
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- St. Charles BME Church
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- Underground
Railroad Midwest Safari: 2008 - 2010
- Site of New
Underground Railroad Freedom Center - Cincinnati, Ohio
- Rankin and John Parker homes in Ripley, Ohio
- Oberlin University - Site #14
- Underground
Railroad Statue of Underground Railroad Freedom Trails and Statue of Sojourner Truth, Battle Creek, Mich.
- Museum of African-American History - Detroit
- Black Holocaust Museum - Wisconsin
- Underground
Railroad Cave - Milton, Wisconsin
- and much more
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Southern
U.S. Trails
- Blues and Jazz
Tour
- New Orleans Jazz Museum
- Memphis Music Hall and W.C. Handy Home
- B.B. King and
other Blues Venues
- Burkle Estate - Underground Railroad Site
- Home of Alex Haley (Hennings, TN)
- Life Size Statue of Alex
Haley (Knoxville, TN)
- African-American
Trails of the Mississippi Valley Delta Blues
- Chicage Jazz Tour
- Route 61 Blues Highway
- Clarksdale, Ms.-Morgan Freeman’s Ground Zero
Club and Madidi Restaurant
- Oprah Winfrey's original childhood home at
Kosciusco, Ms.
- Blues and Jazz Tour at Chicago
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- Civil Rights Tour
- Birmingham's Civil Rights Institute
- Pettus Bridge and National Voting Rights Museum - Selma
- Civil Rights Monument and Fountain, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Rosa Park's Museum - Montgomery
- Tuskegee Institute, home of Tuskegee
Airmen - Tuskegee
- Home and birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. - Atlanta
- King Center for
Non-Violent Social Change, Visitors Center, Ebenezer Baptist Church
- Atlanta
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Coastal Florida Adventures
- Ft. Moses Site St. Augustine Florida
- Kingsley Plantation Near Jacksonville Florida
- Black Archives Research Center Miami
- Overton Neighborhood
- Lincoln Memorial Park
- The Vanguard and more
- Black Seminole Connections Florida Everglades
- Black Bahamian Connections Florida Keys
- Bahamian Village, Architecture & Culture
- Enjoy the beautiful sunsets and scenic drive from Key Largo to Key West across the
"pearls" (small islands) of the Atlantic Ocean
- Return trip via the Gulf Coast to Tampa, Inland to Orlando, into Atlanta, and back to Hampton, Virginia
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- Florida/Bahama Island
- Rosewood
- Eatonville (first all black town in Florida)
- Ft. Moses site/St. Augustine
- Miami - and cruise to Bahamas, Caribbean Connection
- Heritage Tours at Jacksonville, Florida and Savannah, Georgia on return trip
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Georgia and South Carolina Sea Islands
- These islands serve as a connection between African Americans, the Caribbean, and Africa
- Heritage Sites and
Culture of Low Country Islands at: Tybee, St. Catherine, Sapelo, St. Simon
- Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah,
Georgia Gullah “Geechie” country
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U.S.
West and East Trails
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Denver and Black America West
- Kentucky Statue of “York” - Muhammad Ali Museum
- St Louis Missouri Heritage Sites - Kansas and Buffalo Soldiers sites
- St. Louis, Scott Joplin Museum and
Cultural center and other Heritage sites
- Kansas and Buffalo Soldier territory
- Negro League Baseball and the Kansas City
Jazz Museum
- Black Military Memorial at Des Moines,
Iowa
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Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma
- Learn about the Chisholm
Trail at the Museum in Waurika and Duncan, Oklahoma
- National Cowboy Hall of Fame and site of Oklahoma bombing
- Ft. Sill Oklahoma and Ft. Leavenworth Kansas, home of Buffalo Soldiers
- Nicodemus, Kansas
- Tulsa Oklahoma Heritage
Sites - Black Wall Street Legacy
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- Black
Seminole Communities and Connections
- Brackettville, Texas and Alamo Village
- Southwest Texas (Houston, San Antonio, Del Rio)
- Northeast Border Town of Mexico Acuña, Coahuila
- Baton Rouge and
New Orleans, Louisiana
- Mississippi Heritage Sites along Gulf Coast
- Little Rock Arkansas
- Former President Clinton's Library and The Clinton
Family Home Site
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- Harlem Revisited
- Lawnside New Jersey's
"Mott House"
- Safe House of The Underground Railroad
- Schomburg Museum in Harlem
- Absyssinian and Canaan Baptist Churches, N.Y.
- Magic Johnson and Apollo
Theatres
- African Burial Ground, 911 bombing site and Wall Street area
- So much more
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Treasures of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay
- Underground Railroad Museum, Cambridge, MD
- Birthplace of Harriet Tubman
- Roots Experiences at Annapolis,
MD (Overnight Stay)
- Black Wax Museum Baltimore, MD
- Reginald Lewis Museum at Baltimore
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- Islands of the Caribbean
- Bermuda
- U.S. Virgin Islands
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