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This is a list of Slavery memorials and museums situated in the United States, organized by state.

List of Monuments, Memorials, and Museums about Slavery in the United States, by state. See also: List of museums focused on African Americans, Civil Rights Monuments

• Alabama State Black Archives Research Center and Museum, Huntsville, Alabama, founded 1990.
• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, founded 1992.
• Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument,Birmingham, Alabama, established by President Barack Obama in January 2017.
• Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama, designed by artist Maya Lin, DATE??
• Freedom Riders National Monument, Anniston, Alabama established by President Barack Obama in January 2017.
• George Washington Carver Museum, The, Tuskegee, Alabama, founded 1941.
• National African American Archives and Museum, Mobile, Alabama, founded 1992.
• Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, Montgomery County, Lowndes County & Dallas Counties, AL

• African American Multicultural Museum, Scottsdale, Arizona, founded 2005
• George Washington Carver Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, founded 1980.

• Delta Cultural Center, Helena, Arkansas, founded 1991.
• Fort Smith National Historic Site, Fort Smith, Arkansas.

• African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO), Oakland, Californian, collection began in 1946.
• California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California, founded 1981.
• Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, founded 2005.

• Black American West Museum & Heritage Center, Denver, Colorado, founded 1971.

• John E. Rogers African American Cultural Center, Hartford, Connecticut, founded 1991.

• Anacostia Museum, founded 1967.
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, managed by the National Park Service, established 1962.
• Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, managed by the National Park Service, established 1979.
• National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Smithsonian, established 2003, opened 2016. Designed by architects Adjaye Associates and Davis Brody Bond.

• African American Museum of the Arts, DeLand, Florida.
• Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American History Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, founded 2006.
• John G. Riley Center/Museum of African American History and Culture, Tallahassee, Florida, founded 1996.
• Kingsley Plantation, Jacksonville, Florida, former slave plantation managed by National Park Service.
• LaVilla Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, founded 1999.
• Mary McLeod Bethune Home, Daytona Beach, Florida, established 1956.
• Old Dillard Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, founded 1995.
• St. Rita's Black Heritage Museum, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, founded 1999.
• Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum, Tallahassee, Florida, founded 1976.

• Dorchester Academy and Museum, Midway, Georgia, founded 2004.
• Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site, Atlanta, Georgia, founded 1996.
• National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia, founded 2014.
• Tubman African American Museum, Macon, Georgia, founded 1981.

• Idaho Black History Museum, Boise, Idaho, founded 1995.

• DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, Illinois, founded 1960.
• Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois.

• African American Museum of Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, opened 2000

• Kansas African-American Museum, Wichita, Kansas, founded 1997.
• Nicodemus National Historic Site, Nicodemus, Kansas, founded 1996.

• Isaac Scott Hathaway Museum at Lexington History Center, Lexington, Kentucky, founded 2002.

• Baton Rouge African American Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, founded 2001.
• Bontemps African American Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana, founded 1988.
• Cane River Creole National Historical Park, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, run by the National Park Service, established in 1994.
• Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Louisiana African American Heritage Trail, State of Louisiana, founded 2008
• New Orleans African American Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, founded 1988.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum, Monroe, Louisiana, founded 1994.
• River Road African American Museum, Donaldsville, Louisiana, founded 1994.
• Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum, Hammond, Louisiana, founded 2005.
• Whitney Plantation, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

• Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, Maryland, founded 1984.
• Great Blacks in Wax Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, founded 1983.
• Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center, Church Creek, Maryland, managed by the National Park Service, established 2017.
• Prince George's African American Museum and Cultural Center, North Brentwood, Maryland, founded 2010.
• Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History and Culture, Baltimore, Maryland, founded 2005.

• Boston Massacre memorial, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Boston African American National Historic Site, [[Boston, Massachusetts].
• Museum of African American History & Abiel Smith School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1964.

• Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan, founded 1965.

• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, [[Jackson, Mississippi], 2017.
• Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture, Natchez, Mississippi, founded 1991.
• Smith-Robertson Museum and Cultural Center, Jackson, Mississippi, founded 1984.

• George Washington Carver National Monument, Diamond, Missouri.

• Great Plains Black History Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, founded 1975

• Afro-American Historical and Cultural Society Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey, founded 1984.

• African American Museum (New York), Hempstead, New York, opened 1970.
• African Burial Ground National Monument, New York City

• Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, founded 1974.
• International Civil Rights Center and Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, founded 2010.

• The African American Museum in Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, founded 1953.
• National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio, founded 1987.
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnatti, Ohio, founded 2004.

• African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, opened 1976.
• August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded 2006.
• Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, Hopewell, Pennsylvania.

• Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum, Seneca, South Carolina, founded 2015
• Clemson Area African American Museum, Clemson, South Carolina, founded 2010.
• International African American Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, 2019 (anticipated).
• Reconstruction Era National Monument, Beaufort County, South Carolina includes Camp Saxton Site/Emancipation Grove, Port Royal Penn Center, Saint Helena Island, established in January, 2017 by President Barack Obama.
• Slave Mart Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, founded 1938.

• National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, founded 1991.

• African American Museum (Dallas), Dallas, Texas, founded 1974.
• Booker T. Washington Park, Mexia, Texas
• Emancipation Park, Austin, Texas
• Emancipation Park, Houston, Texas
• George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, Austin, Texas, founded 1980

• Alexandria Black History Museum, Alexandria, Virginia, founded 1987.
• Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum, Lynchburg, Virginia, founded 1977.
• Arlington House (The Robert E. Lee Memorial), Arlington, Virginia
• Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, founded 1988.
• Booker T. Washington National Monument, Hardy, Virginia.
• Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, Virginia.
• George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Washington’s Birthplace, Virginia
• L.E. Coleman African-American Museum, Halifax County, Virginia, founded 2005.
• Legacy Museum of African American History, Lynchburg, Virginia, founded 2000
• Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, Richmond, Virginia.

• Northwest African American Museum, Seattle, Washington, founded 2008.

• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

• America's Black Holocaust Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded 1988.

• Savage, Beth L. (Ed.); African American Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places; National Park Service, Preservation Press, 1994

Media related to Holocaust memorials in the United States at Wikimedia Commons

List of museums focused on African Americans