Mapping the African American Past (MAAP)

Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) episodes:

• 01.21.2008

  Abolitionist Place - description

  Willoughby and Duffield Streets In September of 2007, Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn got a new name.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Abyssinian Baptist Church - description

  132 West 138th Street Known for its charismatic leadership and community outreach, the Abyssinian Baptist Church was formed in 1808 by a group of African Americans and Ethiopians who refused to accept the segregated seating in the First Baptist Church...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Abyssinian Baptist Church - Kenneth Jackson commentary

  Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University, on the Abyssinian Baptist Church.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Abyssinian Baptist Church - Robert O'Meally commentary

  Robert O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Columbia University, on the Abyssinian Baptist Church.

  
• 01.21.2008

  African Burial Ground - description

  290 Broadway The African Burial Ground is a federally designated historic landmark and archaeological site that was used as a cemetery by free and enslaved people of African descent during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

  
• 01.21.2008

  African Burial Ground - Kenneth Jackson commentary

  Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University, discusses the African Burial Ground.

  
• 01.21.2008

  African Burial Ground - Kellie Jones commentary

  Kellie Jones, Associate Professor, Columbia University, discusses the African Burial Ground.

  
• 01.21.2008

  African Burial Ground - Dowoti Desir commentary

  Dowoti Desir, Executive Director of The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, discusses the African Burial Ground.

  
• 01.21.2008

  African Burial Ground - Rodney Leon commentary

  Rodney Leon, African Burial Ground Memorial architect, discusses the site.

  
• 01.21.2008

  African Free School - description

  135-137 Mulberry Street Soon after the Revolution, in 1785, a group of wealthy, powerful white men formed the New York Manumission Society. Although many were slave owners, their mission was to aid the enslaved, and to gradually end slavery in...

  
• 01.21.2008

  African Grove Theater - description

  Mercer Street near Houston On Mercer Street in the fall of 1821, King Lear limped out onto stage and the audience went wild. Lear was black.

  
• 01.21.2008

  African Methodist Church moves to Harlem - Cynthia Copland commentary

  African Methodist Church moves uptown to Harlem Commentary by Cynthia Copland

  
• 01.21.2008

  African Society for Mutual Relief - description

  42 Baxter Street As soon as it was legal for black New Yorkers to organize, they did so. In 1808, the African Society for Mutual Relief was founded. (The Society may have met in secret earlier, but there are no records...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Audubon Ballroom - description

  3940 Broadway Best known as the place where Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, the Audubon Ballroom has long been a center of African American social and political activity.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Audubon Ballroom - Dowoti Desir commentary

  Dowoti Desir, Executive Director of The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, discusses the Audubon Ballroom.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Bedford-Stuyvesant - description

  Bedford-Stuyvesant, also known as Bed-Stuy, is home to the largest concentration of blacks in New York City and one of the largest in the country.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Bethel AME Church of Amityville - Lynda Day commentary

  Bethel AME Church, Amityville The Bethel AME Church of Amityville was the first black church on Long Island. Daniel Squires and Delaney H. Miller organized the church in 1815, after founding the Sunday school one year earlier.In 1839, Elias and...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Bethel AME Church - description

  Bethel AME Church, Amityville The Bethel AME Church of Amityville was the first black church on Long Island. Daniel Squires and Delaney H. Miller organized the church in 1815, after founding the Sunday school one year earlier.In 1839, Elias and...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Black Brigades - description

  10 Church Street Blacks who fought with the British lived in “Negro barracks”. These men fought in units known as the Black Pioneers and the Black Brigade. Most did the hard support work the army needed, but some were armed and...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Booker T. Washington House - description

  Booker T. Washington House Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856, and labored on the Burroughs tobacco farm in Virginia. Nine years later, he and his family were freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation and moved to...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Booker T. Washington House - Thelma Jackson-Abidally commentary

  Fort Salonga, Huntington, Long Island Between the years 1911 and 1915, Booker T. Washington traveled from Alabama to Fort Salonga for rest and relief from the hottest months of the summer. Located on the north shore of Long Island in...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Bridge Street AWME Church - description

  311 Bridge Street It was October 1865, only months after the last shots of the Civil War were fired. People in Brooklyn opened their newspaper, the Brooklyn Eagle, to learn that "Last evening an immense congregation, fully half consisting of whites,...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Catherine Ferguson - description

  51 Warren Street Catherine ("Katy") Ferguson was born in 1779 with almost nothing--not even freedom.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Colored Orphan Asylum - description

  Fifth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets If you were black and orphaned in New York in the 1800s, there was nowhere to go but the cruel streets.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Colored Orphan Asylum - Kenneth Jackson commentary

  Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University, discusses the Colored Orphan Asylum.

  
• 01.21.2008

  David Ruggles Home - description

  67 Lispenard David Ruggles might have been the most hated activist of his day.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Downing's Oyster House - description

  5 Broad Street Before New York was called the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Duke Ellington - description

  110th Street and 5th Avenue. Edward Kennedy Ellington (1899–1974), known as Duke Ellington, changed the sound of popular music in America and around the world.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Duke Ellington - Kellie Jones commentary

  Kellie Jones, Associate Professor, Columbia University, discusses Duke Ellington.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Duke Ellington - Robert O'Meally commentary

  Robert O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Columbia University, discusses Duke Ellington.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Eastville Community - Lynda Day commentary

  Eastville, Long Island Eastville, like many early free African American communities on Long Island, was multi-ethnic. African Americans arrived in Sag Harbor seeking employment in the profitable whaling business sometime prior to 1840.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Eastville Community - description

  Eastville, Long Island Eastville, like many early free African American communities on Long Island, was multi-ethnic. African Americans arrived in Sag Harbor seeking employment in the profitable whaling business sometime prior to 1840.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Ebbets Field - description

  Sullivan Place & McKeever Place, Flatbush, Brooklyn Located in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, Ebbets Field was constructed in 1913, costing $750,000 to complete. Its home team was the Brooklyn Robins, renamed the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1932 .

  
• 01.21.2008

  Execution Grounds - description

  Foley Square btween Lafayette and Centre Streets The year 1741 started out badly. Poor whites and blacks lived in fear of freezing or starving to death.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Execution Grounds - Kenneth Jackson commentary

  Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University, discusses the Execution Grounds.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Five Points - description

  Worth Street & Baxter Street Five Points was a neighborhood around the intersection of Worth Street, Baxter Street, and Cross Street, which no longer exists.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Five Points - Kenneth Jackson commentary

  Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University, discusses Five Points.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Fort Amsterdam - description

  One Bowling Green Fort Amsterdam was designed to be a state-of-the-art diamond-shaped fort, built of stone and bristling with cannon.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Fort Amsterdam - Kenneth Jackson commentary

  Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University, discusses Fort Amsterdam.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Fraunces Tavern - description

  54 Pearl Street Around the time of the American Revolution, everyone in New York knew Samuel Fraunces.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Fraunces Tavern - Kenneth Jackson commentary

  Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University, discusses Fraunces Tavern.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Freetown, Long Island - Allison Manfra McGovern commentary

  Freetown, East Hampton, Long Island Freetown is a small, unincorporated hamlet within the Town of East Hampton, located along Three Mile Harbor Road between Jackson Street and Abraham’s Path. Following the passage of the Gradual Emancipation Act of 1799 in New...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Frederick Douglass - description

  36 Lispenard Street Dressed as a sailor, Frederick Bailey stepped ashore a free man, but he was not safe until the great abolitionist David Ruggles took him into his home.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Freedom's Journal - description

  Freedom's Journal Before 1827, blacks didn't exist in the newspapers, unless they committed a crime. African American weddings, births, deaths, and accomplishments were not to be found in a newspaper anywhere in the United States. But the year 1827 saw big...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Freetown, Long Island - description

  Freetown, East Hampton, Long Island Freetown is a small, unincorporated hamlet within the Town of East Hampton, located along Three Mile Harbor Road between Jackson Street and Abraham’s Path. Following the passage of the Gradual Emancipation Act of 1799 in New...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Harlem - description

  Harlem has been a black community for over 100 years.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Harlem - Manning Marable commentary

  Dr. Manning Marable, Professor of History and Political Science and founding Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, discusses Harlem.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Harlem - Robert O'Meally commentary

  Robert O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Columbia University, discusses the Harlem Renaissance.

  
• 01.21.2008

  Harlem Community Art Center - description

  290 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan The Harlem Community Art Center was created in November 1938. Its opening was attended by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who welcomed the community’s new hub for creativity. During its brief life, the Harlem Community Art...

  
• 01.21.2008

  Harlem Children's Zone - description

  207 Lenox Ave, Manhattan In the mid 1990s, author and community leader Geoffrey Canada conceived of a new vision for Harlem. After years of hard work with Harlem’s Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, Canada felt that many children in poor...