Touring
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AMERICA
Amalgamated Publishers, Inc. is proud to
present the 2nd Annual louring Black
America Travel and Tourism Guide. The
response to the 1993 API Travel Guide
was trem endous. This y ear’s guide will
take you through six new and exciting LJ.S.
cities—Baltimore, Detroit, Kansas City,
M emphis, Montgomery, and P h ilad el
phia. We re sure African-Americans across
the country will be looking forward to vis
iting and exploring our African-American
heritage via historical landmarks, cultural
sites, fea sts at the m ost sc ru m p tio u s
restaurants, and entertainment at the most
happening nightspots in town!
Learning about our African-American
history, we discover the achievements and
contributions our ancestors have m ade,
that type of knowledge is everlasting and
im m easurable. Monuments and heritage
sites provide some evidence of trium ph
over adversity, while celebrating the legacy
of an unconquerable spirit.
While in the city of choice, pick up a
copy of its African-American newspaper to
keep you abreast of w hat’s happening in
an d a ro u n d th e city. B altim o re: T he
B altim ore T im es; D etroit: M ichigan
Chronicle; Kansas City: The Kansas City
C all; M em phis: T r i-S ta te D efen d er:
M ontgom ery: M ontgom ery T u sk egee
l imes; and Philadelphia: P hiladelphia
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T r ib u n e an d P h ila d e lp h ia New
O b serv er. Also, c o n ta c t th e c ity 's
Convention and Visitors Bureau for further
inform ation on African-Am erican sites,
tours, and attractions.
We will continue to select and feature
innovative and exciting cities each year.
We urge you to support those advertisers
who have chosen the supplement to convex
their invitation to visit their city or use
their products and services.
Remember, if vou drive, wearing your
seat belt is the law— BUCKLE UP and
never DRINK AND DRIVE!
Hare a safe, educational, and won
derful racation experience.
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from the days of slavery and the abolitionist struggle;
photographs, manuscripts and artifacts touching upon
the post-Civil War world of emancipation; and oral
history tapes, works of art and everyday items that
detail the lives of individual Black Marylanders and of
a community segregated because of race are on view in
a museum that repeatedly repays exploration.
Maryland provides a perspective on African and
s African-American history/achievement. From ancient
“ Africa through the Middle Passage, from slavery
| through the Civil War and Reconstruction, from the
“ Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights era, the Black
Baltimore is famed for its Inner Harbor
impact on world and American history is traced at the
Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore. More
than 100 life-size and lifelike wax figures of prominent
I^ALTIMORE, MARYLAND
African and African-American personages dramatize
the trials and triumphs of a people. The museum
emphasizes
Black scientist, inventors, social activists,
From Africa to bondage to resistance to the perils and
and
statesmen.
Black men and women of outstanding
lim itations of freedom , the story of M aryland’s
achievement
are
both celebrated and held up for emu
African-Americans is interpreted at the Banneker-
lation
at
the
Great
Blacks in Wax Museum. The fig
Douglass Museum, in Annapolis. African art and utili
ures
may
be
in
wax,
but the achievements celebrated
tarian objects of the Dogon, Malinke, Bambara, Baule
are
immortal.
and Guro cultures; documents, books and artifacts
ITr. Carter G. Woodson
welcomes you to
Great Blacks In Wax
Great Blacks In Wax Museum tell the stories
of our struggle
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