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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]
A marker honoring Missouri State's first Black applicant is No. 8 of 20 for the African-American Heritage Trail in Springfield and Greene County.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
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
Jefferson City Community Center, also known as Duke Diggs Community Center, is a historic African-American community centre located at Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri. It was built in 1942, and is a one-story, "T"-plan, stone building. [2]: 5 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]
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.