Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture
This museum was established in 1967, first as an outreach Smithsonian in the community. Later this museum evolved into a cultural center that documents, preserves, and interprets the African American History from this community’s prospective. The goal of the Cultural material is to educate today’s youth on the impact of world affairs to a single community.
One of the current exhibitions of the museum is the Jubilee: African American Celebrations. This exhibit shows how African American holidays have come to be. Many of the holidays were created for and by African Americans after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Also featured at the museum is the Plummer Diary. Adam Francis Plummer was a slave born in Upper Marlboro Maryland who began to write in this diary in 1814 and continued to 1905, when his daughter continued her father’s legacy after his death. This diary gives great insight to student groups about what life was really like for a slave in the 1800’s.
Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture
