America’s History Live Dress-up Booths™
This program provides activities for youth and adults to engage history in an interesting and creative way. We bring racks full of period costumes and accessories; wigs, hats, shawls, and props.
We spotlight the African American perspective,
with reflection on America’s diversity.
Black History is America's History!
America’s History Live Dress-up Booths™
1700s: The American Revolution & The Patriots of African Descent
1900s: The Women's Suffrage Movement & The Fight for the Right to Vote!
1700s: The American Revolution & The Patriots of African Descent
African indentured servants, as well as free blacks and slaves, all assisted in the founding of our nation. There were between 5,000 to 20,000 patriots of African and Native American descent who served in the Continental Forces under the command of General George Washington.
1800s: The Underground Railroad and The Freedom Fighters!
1900s: The Women's Suffrage Movement & The Fight for the Right to Vote!
1700s: The American Revolution & The Patriots of African Descent
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19 century, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. The scheme was assisted by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the cause of the escapees.
1900s: The Women's Suffrage Movement & The Fight for the Right to Vote!
1900s: The Women's Suffrage Movement & The Fight for the Right to Vote!
1900s: The Women's Suffrage Movement & The Fight for the Right to Vote!
What a great way to commemorate many key players in the women's suffrage movement and the year 2020 - the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women's constitutional right to vote.
1950s- 1960s: The Civil Rights Movement
1970s: Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud! Black Empowerment Movement
1900s: The Women's Suffrage Movement & The Fight for the Right to Vote!
The civil rights movement in the United States was a decades-long struggle by African Americans to end legalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the United States. The movement has its origins in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century, although the movement achieved its largest legislative gains in the mid-1960s after years of direct actions and grassroots protests.
1970s: Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud! Black Empowerment Movement
1970s: Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud! Black Empowerment Movement
1970s: Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud! Black Empowerment Movement
in 1968. In the song, Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud, by R&B singer, James Brown, addresses the prejudice towards blacks in America, and the need for black empowerment.
The Black Power movement emphasized racial pride, economic empowerment, and the creation of political and cultural institutions for African-American people in the United States.