Black Precinct and Courthouse South Side
Patriot Day On September 11, 2001, our nation experienced a heartbreaking tragedy. On this day, four coordinated terrorist attacks were carried out by al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist group. Nineteen terrorists from al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes, deliberately crashing two of the planes into the upper floors of the North and South Towers of the World Trade […]
Booker T. Washington creates the National Negro Business League The Negro Business League was founded by Booker T. Washington on August 23, 1900 to promote the interests of Black businesses all over the country. The League, created initially in Boston, Massachusetts, included small business owners, doctors, farmers, craftsmen, and other professionals. Booker T. Washington felt […]
Join Books & Books at the Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum for a discussion of Gary Tyler’s memoir Stitching Freedom. In 1975, after being wrongfully charged with the killing of a white teenager and found guilty by an all-white jury, Gary Tyler was sent to Angola prison to die. He was only seventeen years […]