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Commemorating New York's African Burial Ground: A National Monument

From February 1, 2007 through April 1, 2007
Exhibition Hall
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801 (directions)

This special exhibition will fully explore the African Burial Ground, from its unearthing in 1991 to the 2006 Presidential declaration making it America's first National Monument commemorating a community of enslaved African men, women, and children. From the local community's struggle to "stop the digging" and to properly protect and preserve the ancestral cemetery, Commemorating New York's African Burial Ground will include documents, photographs, artifacts reproductions, and video footage to recall the historic, but long-forgotten cemetery's origins, abandonment, and rediscovery--and the public's journey to transfrom the site into a national monument.