Pre Conference Tour “Smithsonian on the Landscape”
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018 / 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Taking a cue from the Smithsonian, this tour will highlight the black settlements and mixed-race communities that are featured in the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s “The Power of Place Exhibit”.
Visit:
• Fountain City’s new interpretive center and the adjoining Levi and Catharine Coffin State Historic Site
• Union Literary Institute near Spartanburg
Travel just across the Ohio boarder to visit:
• The James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead
• The Bass Cemetery
• Bethel Long Wesleyan Church
Levi and Catherine Coffin Interpretive Center and Historic Home
The Center, featured by Smithsonian Magazine as one of the 12 new museums to visit in 2016
Levi and Catharine Coffin – Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites
Union Literary Institute Preservation Site
IHB: Union Literary Institute | IN.gov
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James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead
Located just across the Ohio border, the Clemens founded the Longtown Settlement when they purchased the land in 1818. Longtown will be celebrating their bicentennial in2018. All of these sites are listed in the National Parks Service Underground Railroad “Network to Freedom” Program.
James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead
James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead – Greenville, Ohio – Landmark
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African American Heritage Bus Tour “Heroes, History and Heritage” Tour
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 20178 / 7:00 – 11:45 AM
An American Revolutionary, Civil War Heroes and a King who changed the world…learn about these individuals, the preserved structures in their honor and much more as part of the Indianapolis African American Heritage Tour.
See sights that share the early history of African Americans in Indianapolis as you drive to these step off locations:
• Indiana War Memorial and Museum
• Kennedy- King Park Landmark for Peace Memorial – National Commemorative Site
• Crispus Attucks Museum
Indiana War Memorial and Museum
A designated National Historic Landmark, National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior. The museum located on the lower level portrays Hoosier involvement in every military conflict from revolutionary times to current Middle East actions. Indianapolis devotes more acreage than any other U.S. city to honoring our nation fallen, and is second only to Washington, DC, in the number of war memorials.
Indiana War Memorial – IN.gov
Kennedy King Memorial
On the night that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Robert Kennedy was in Indianapolis. He was already scheduled to speak at this urban park.
Kennedy-King Park is recognized as a National Commemorative Site.
Crispus Attucks Museum
Located in the city’s segregated high school established 1927. Exhibits highlight the school’s legend and legacies, Indiana Jazz History, Tuskegee Airman Story and more.
Crispus Attucks High School | Indianapolis Public Schools