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OutBlack
All
History Visit these remarkable
stops in the Columbus area:
• Prince Hall Masonic Lodge
(Where Rev. Martin Luther King,
Jr. spoke)
• “Ma” Rainey House (Home of the
“Mother of the Blues”)
• Liberty Theatre Cultural Center
olumbus (Legendary black performers,
is a hub of including Ella Fitzgerald and
African American history Ethel Waters, performed here.)
Cand culture. From the • St. James AME Church
“Mother of the Blues” to the (c. 1863, second oldest A.M.E
world’s first black combat Church in Georgia, listed on the
aviator, Columbus paints National Historic Register)
an incredible picture of
black heritage that speaks • “Kinfolks’ Corner” (Historical
through generations. marker denotes this intersection
that was the meeting place
for generations of Columbus
and Alabama citizens, and was
alluded to in Carson McCullers’
1946 novel, “The Member of
the Wedding.”)
• 1828 Cemetery (Served from
1828 to 1836 as the burial
ground for enslaved African
Americans in Columbus)
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