Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Museum to be built where slaves set foot in US

Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., center, announces that a $75 million International African American Museum will be built at the site of a wharf in Charleston, during a July 15, 2014 news conference in Charleston, S.C. The site is where tens of thousands of slaves first set foot in the United States. Behind the mayor are Wilbur Johnson, left, the chairman of the board of the museum, and artist Jonathan Green, whose colorful paintings of the black culture of the sea islands of the Southeast coast are in collections worldwide. Riley said construction of the museum could begin in early 2016 with completion two years later. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith) CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Organizers say a $75 million International African American Museum will be built beside the Charleston harbor where tens of thousands of slaves first set foot in the United States.








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