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Location. Founded in 1981, this 8,500-square-foot (790 m 2) museum is dedicated to preserving and displaying African American art, history, and culture. The museum was located at the corner of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Drive and Walnut Street from its founding until 2015. The 8,500 square foot building was replaced with a new 49,500 square ...
The World Festival of Black Arts (French: Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres ), also known as FESMAN or FMAN, is a month-long culture and arts festival that takes place in Africa. The festival features poetry, sculpture, painting, music, cinema, theatre, fashion, architecture, design and dance from artists and performers from around the African ...
The International Cherry Blossom Festival is held in Macon, Georgia every spring. Macon, known as the "Cherry Blossom Capital of the World," [1] has around 300,000–350,000 Yoshino Cherry Trees that bloom around the city in late March every year. [2] [3] The festival, held to coincide with the typical blooming period, lasts for ten days and ...
“Known as ‘Macon’s Black Wall Street,’ the District is historically important as an educational, professional, business, and residential area for African Americans in Middle Georgia ...
The parade is a sanctioned Macon200 event along with other festival organizers such as Macon Black Culture, Inc., Kwanzaa Cultural Access Center, Inc., Barbers on Duty, Inc., and Torchlight ...
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Ellen Craft (1826–1891) and William Craft (September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900) were American abolitionists who were born into slavery in Macon, Georgia. They escaped to the Northern United States in December 1848 by traveling by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. Ellen crossed the boundaries of race, class ...
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