African American

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Somerset Place

Somerset Place Plantation occupied more than 100,000 acres of land on the banks of Lake Phelps.

Harvey B. Gantt Center

The artistic works celebrating the passion and expression of 20 renowned African American artists represent the cornerstone of the Gantt Center’s permanent art collection.

Montford Point Museum

The Montford Point Museum on the base at Camp Lejeune forever captures the proud history of African American Marines who trained here during World War II.

Cape Fear Museum of History and Science

Chronicles the artifacts, images and lifestyles of the residents of the lower Cape Fear River throughout its history. The Michael Jordan Discovery Center is sure to be a hit with the younger set.

Hayti Heritage Center

In the late 19th century Hayti was one of the most affluent African-American communities in the entire United States.

Historic Stagville

Once among the largest plantations in the entire South, Stagville was home to more than 900 enslaved workers in the era leading up to the Civil War.

Charlotte Hawkins Brown State Historic Site

The Palmer Institute School in Sedalia founded by Charlotte Hawkins Brown in 1902 is the State’s first African-American Historic Site.

YMI Cultural Center

Built in the nineteenth century by African American construction workers who also worked on Biltmore House, the YMI Cultural Center...

International Civil Rights Center & Museum

In Greensboro on February 1, 1960 four students from NC A & T State University walked through the front doors of the Woolworth’s store in downtown Greensboro and into history.

Bellamy Mansion Museum

Built shortly before the Civil War by free and enslaved workers, the Bellamy Mansion is one of the State’s premier examples of antebellum architecture.

Call 704-708-6270 for more information.