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The Lenora Rolla Heritage Center Museum is a museum in Fort Worth, Texas that focuses on the history of African Americans in Tarrant County and throughout Texas. [1] It is named for Lenora Rolla who initially raised money to purchase the building and start the museum in 1979. [ 2 ]
Black American West Museum and Heritage Center: Denver: Colorado: 1971 [40] Black Cowboy Museum Rosenberg: Texas: 2017 [41] Black History 101 Mobile Museum Detroit: Michigan: 1995 [42] Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia: Richmond: Virginia: 1981 [43] Blanchard House Museum: Punta Gorda: Florida: 2004 [44] Bontemps African ...
The South Dallas Cultural Center places a heavy emphasis on supporting and displaying blacks in the performing, literary, and visual arts. In Fort Worth, The Lenora Roll Heritage Center Museum and National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum houses history highlighting African-American culture primarily in the North Texas region. [36]
The inaugural Black History Celebration will be a celebration paying homage to the legacy leaders and trailblazers in Fort Worth. This black-tie affair will be from 6 to 10 p.m. Feb. 25 at the ...
The museum’s Confederate and Union military artifacts, valued at $3 million when the $1.5 million building opened in 2004, are now worth $20 million-$25 million and “may be the biggest private ...
The National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum was founded February 1, 2001, by Jim and Gloria Austin of Fort Worth, Texas. Their objective was to recognize the individual contributions of many groups from the Western Frontier. Included in these groups are people of Hispanic, Native American, European, Asian, and African descent.
A curated collection of Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo artifacts will be on display, including Amon G. Carter’s Stetson hat and dress saddles.
It was founded in 1986 by the physicians Dallas Hall, Neil B. Shulman, and Elijah Saunders, in response to concern about high rates of hypertension among African Americans. By 2006, the society had broadened its scope to focus not just on reducing rates of hypertension among African Americans, but also on improving the health of all minority ...