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The Museum of African American History is located inside what was once the Abiel Smith School House, and also includes the African Meeting House in the neighboring building. The Museum works in partnership with the Boston African American National…

The photo portrays a recruitment poster for the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first black regiment recruited in the North.

Three different photos of the African Meeting House taken at different periods in history, yet maintaining much of its original appearance.

Three different photos of the African Meeting House taken at different periods in history, yet maintaining much of its original appearance.

The residential streets of Beacon Hill possess a generally peaceful and calm ambience, lined with beautiful brick row houses, black gas lamps, and towering trees of bright green foliage.

The residential streets of Beacon Hill possess a generally peaceful and calm ambience, lined with beautiful brick row houses, black gas lamps, and towering trees of bright green foliage.

The overlap of the Boston city tour bus with the Charles Street Meeting House, the home of a long segregationist tradition of church seating and the struggle against it, provides a snapshot of the different temporal layers that intersect in Beacon…

The past home of John J. Smith (1820-1906), who was a leading abolitionist and recruiting officer for the all-black 5th Cavalry in the Civil War. He also served on the Massachusetts House of Representatives for three terms.

A close-shot video clip of author's feet walking on the original floorboards of the African Meeting House, the oldest surviving black church building in the US. The ground featured in the clip is the same ground walked on by many prominent…

Smith Court contains the entrances to the Museum of African American History, which includes the African Meeting House and the Abiel Smith School. The street is also home to the Smith Court Residences, five homes that exemplify those that black…