Mapping The African American Past (maap)

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 the Town of Huntington, Fort Salonga was a peaceful, scenic place for the Washington family to spend their vacations.

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, was present at the African M. E. Church in Bridge street."

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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