By Linda Tarrant-Reid

Discovering

 Black New York

A Guide To

The City's Most Important

African American

Landmarks, Restaurants,

Museums, Historical Sites,

And More!

 "A Fascinating Blend of Travel 

Info, Culture and History"

  Discovering Black New York takes you on a fascinating, off-the-beaten-track tour of the Big Apple. From the world-famous Apollo Theatre to the respected Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to the many excellent soul food restaurants, this unusual city travel guide covers all the hot spots, including historical sites, museums and art galleries, shopping, tours, nightclubs, and other attractions related to African American history and culture.

Discovering Black New York Reveals Over 500 Historically and Culturally Significant Locations. 

Including:

• When the first blacks arrived in New York and how they got there

   

• The outcome of the court fight to gain their freedom

   

• The role slaves played in the creation of Wall Street

   

• The first organized slave rebellion in Manhattan - you can still visit the street

   

• The former home of George Washington's aide, pictured in the famous oil painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware, which is now an excellent restaurant

   

• The location of Downing's Oyster House where fugitive slaves were hidden in the basement

   

• The African Grove where a black theater group performed Shakespeare between 1821 and 1830

   

• Fraunces Tavern, a black-owned inn, where George Washington made his Farewell Address to his troops in 1783  

   

• Mother A.M.E. Zion Church, where the first black-owned newspaper in the United States was published

   

• The African Burial Ground where 408 intact remains of colonial blacks were uncovered in 1991

   

• What spurred the migration of blacks from southern Manhattan to Harlem in the early 1900s

   

• The church attended by Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Paul Robeson

• And hundreds more........