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This list of African American Historic Places in Missouri is based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. [1]
The home Joplin rented was recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1976 and was saved from destruction by the local African American community. In 1983, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources made it the first state historic site in Missouri dedicated to African-American heritage.
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 first national monument dedicated to an African American and first to a non-president. [4]
Benton Avenue AME Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 830 N. Benton Avenue in Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, USA. It was built between 1922 and 1926, and is a two-story tile block and brick church. [2]: 5 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]
St. James A.M.E. Church (Cape Girardeau, Missouri) St. Peter's Catholic Church (Rensselaer, Missouri) Second Baptist Church (Columbia, Missouri) Second Baptist Church (Neosho, Missouri) Second Christian Church (Columbia, Missouri) Simmons Colored School; St. Louis Colored Orphans Home; 2017 St. Louis protests; State of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is a program formed in 2017 [1] to aid stewards of Black cultural sites throughout the nation in preserving both physical landmarks, their material collections and associated narratives.
St. James A.M.E. Church, also known as the St. James Chapel AME Church and St. James Chapel, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal congregation in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It is noted for its historic church, a one-story, stucco-covered brick building with a rectangular plan and a front facing gable built in 1875.
Quinn Chapel AME Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church building located at 227 Bowen Street in the Carondelet section of St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States. Built in 1869 as the North Public Market, it was acquired by the church in 1880. [2] On October 16, 1974, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.