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Hayti Heritage Center

804 Old Fayetteville St, Durham, NC 27701

(919) 683-1709

http://hayti.org/

The Hayti Heritage Center opened in 1975 under the management of the SJHF.  The Center is a cultural enrichment and arts education facility that promotes cultural understanding through diverse events, activities and programs that preserve the heritage and embrace the experiences of Americans of African descent.

  

International Civil Rights Center & Museum

134 South Elm Street Greensboro, NC 27401

(336) 274-9199

https://www.sitinmovement.org/visit/exhibits.asp

This museum, now a nominee as a world heritage site, is the site of the most famous sit in movement in the country.  on February 1,1960, four college students from North Carolina A&T would walk in and sit at the whites only lunch counter and request service.  challenging the F.W Woolworth five and dime to bring about a national change.  The sit-in would continue until July 25th 1960.

  

McCray School

Highway 62 North, Burlington, NC

(336) 570-6060

http://www.historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMKUC_mccray-school_Burlington-NC.html

McCray School is a historic one-room school building for African-American students located near Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. It was built in 1915-1916, and is a one-story, two-bay, frame building. It has a tin gable-front roof and is sheathed in plain weatherboard. The school continued in operation until the consolidation of four rural Alamance County schoolhouses in 1951

  

Palmer Memorial Institute

6136 Burlington Rd, Gibsonville, NC 27249

(336) 449-4846

http://www.nchistoricsites.org/chb/chb.htm

The Palmer Memorial Institute was a college preparatory  high school for African Americans. It was founded in 1902 by Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown at Sedalia, North Carolina near Greensboro. It is now a historic landmark.

  

Stagville Historic Plantation Site

5828 Old Oxford Highway, Durham, NC 27712

(919) 620-0120

http://www.stagville.org/

Located in Durham, Historic Stagville comprises the remnants of one of the largest plantations of the pre-Civil War South. The plantations belonged to the Bennehan-Cameron family, whose combined holdings totaled approximately 900 slaves and almost 30,000 acres of land by 1860. Stagville offers a view of the past, especially that of its African American community, by allowing visitors to guide themselves around its extensive grounds. In addition, Stagville offers the public many learning opportunities.

  

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History

150 South Road, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

919-962-9001

http://stonecenter.unc.edu/

Upon its inception, The Stone Center focused its attention on raising awareness of and appreciation for African-American culture by the campus community. Today, the Center is one of the preeminent sites in the nation for the critical examination of African and African-American diaspora cultures, providing intellectual and cultural programming that is both timely and informative.