African-American Heritage Sites

• Early Superintendents
• * Charles Young: He served as an early Superintendent of Sequoia National Park in 1903. As a Captain in the 9th Cavalry Regiment, he was directed to take two troops of Buffalo soldiers to the Giants Grove of Sequoia and protect the trees and the park from damage. While there, the two companies completed construction of a road to the Giant's Grove, making public access possible.
• * Robert Stanton, National Capital Parks
• * Georgia Ellard, Rock Creek Park
• * Garry Traynham, Allegheny Portage
• Deputy Directors
• * Donald Murphy,
• Director
• * Robert Stanton,

  Parks

• African Burial Ground National Monument, New York, NY
• Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, Arlington, VA
• Booker T. Washington National Monument, Hardy, VA Boston NHS, Boston, MA
• Boston African American National Historic Site, Boston, MA
• Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka, KS
• Cane River Creole National Historical Park, Natchez, LA
• Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, VA
• Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton, OH
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.
• Fort Davis National Historic Site, Fort Davis, TX
• Fort Scott National Historic Site, Fort Scott, KS
• Fort Smith National Historic Site, Fort Smith, AR
• Gateway Arch National Park, St. Louis, MO
• George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Washington's Birthplace, VA
• George Washington Carver National Monument, Diamond, MO
• Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Salt Flat, TX
• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV
• Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, Hopewell, PA
• Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, New Orleans, LA
• Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, IL
• Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
• Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, AR
• Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, Richmond, VA
• Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta, GA
• Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Washington, D.C.
• Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, New Orleans, LA
• Nicodemus National Historic Site, Nicodemus, KS
• Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, Put-in-Bay, OH
• Petersburg National Battlefield, Petersburg, VA
• Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, Concord NWS, Concord, CA
• Richmond National Battlefield Park, Richmond, VA
• San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, San Francisco, CA
• Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, Montgomery, Lowndes & Dallas Counties, AL
• Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Jacksonville, FL
• Tuskegee Airman National Historic Site, Tuskegee, AL
• Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, Tuskegee, AL
• Virgin Islands National Park, St.Johns, VI.

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