John Malveaux: HuffingtonPost.com: 'International African American Museum To Be Built Where Slaves First Set Foot On U.S. Soil'

John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com 

writes:

Please see Huffington Post article http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/15/international-african-american-museum_n_5589184.html?ir=Black+Voices

 

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John Malveaux

Huffington Post

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Organizers say a $75 million International African American Museum will be built beside the Charleston harbor where tens of thousands of slaves first set foot in the United States.

Charleston Mayor Joe Riley announced Tuesday that the museum will be built near where a wharf once stood in the South Carolina city where the Civil War began.

During the late 1770s and early 1800s, tens of thousands of slaves crossed the wharf entering the nation. Riley says there is no better site for the museum.