The African American Museum and Library at Oakland ( AAMLO ) is a museum and non-circulating library in the Oakland Public Library system dedicated to preserving African American history, experiences and culture. Located on 14th Street in Downtown Oakland , California, United States, the museum contains an extensive archival collection of such artifacts as diaries, correspondence, photos, and periodicals.
9-819: African American Museum may refer to: African American Museum and Library at Oakland , California African American Museum of the Arts , DeLand, Florida African American Museum of Iowa African American Museum of Nassau County , Hempstead, New York The African American Museum in Cleveland , Ohio African American Museum in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania African American Museum (Dallas) , Texas National Museum of African American History and Culture , Washington, D.C. See also [ edit ] List of museums focused on African Americans Topics referred to by
18-559: A public/private partnership, in 1994. AAMLO moved into its current location in 2002. List of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr.#California Streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. can be found in many cities of the United States and in nearly every major metropolis . There are also a number of other countries that have honored Martin Luther King Jr. , including Italy and Israel. The first street in
27-587: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages African American Museum and Library at Oakland The AAMLO is located at the Charles S. Greene building which previously was the Carnegie library . The building served as the Oakland Main Library from 1902 to 1951. The AAMLO began as a private collection in 1946, and on July 2, 1965, became
36-1312: The East Bay Negro Historical Society (EBNHS). It later changed its name to the Northern California Center for Afro-American History & Life, before being incorporated into the city of Oakland in 1994 under its current name, the African American Museum and Library at Oakland. Among more than 160 collections in the library are archives relating to Martin Luther King Jr. , Malcolm X , the Black Panthers , Africa, and genealogy. Materials include photographs, manuscripts, letters, diaries, newspapers, recorded oral histories, videos, and microfilms. AAMLO's two galleries host changing exhibitions of art, history, and culture, including collaborative exhibitions. AAMLO's collections include: Ida Jackson - Oakland's first African American schoolteacher Ron Dellums - Congressman and mayor of Oakland, California Marcus Foster - Superintendent of Oakland Schools assassinated in 1973 Barbara Lee - Bay Area Congresswoman Morrie Turner - Cartoonist, creator of
45-662: The United States named in his honor was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Chicago in 1968. The number of streets named after King is increasing every year, and about 70% of these streets are in states which were members of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War : Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas. King's home state of Georgia had
54-521: The comic strip Wee Pals Henry Delton Williams - Hollywood and Motown designer Eugene and Ruth Lasartemay and Jesse and Marcella Ford began collecting artifacts and documents creating the private collection in 1946. Initially housed in a small shop front on Grove Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way ), the collection grew quickly and in 1982, was moved into the Oakland Public Library's Golden Gate Branch. It officially became AAMLO,
63-747: The most, with 75 streets as of 2001; this had increased to 105 as of 2006. As of 2003, there were over 600 American cities that had named a street after King. By 2004, this number had grown to 650, according to NPR . In 2006, Derek Alderman, a cultural geographer at East Carolina University, reported the number had increased to 730, with only 10 states in the country without a street named after King (Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Vermont). In 2014 he estimated that there were over 900 streets named after King in 41 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. In 2019, National Geographic published an interactive mapping of more than 1,000 streets around
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81-478: The world named after King. Business owners in the affected parts of cities have objected, claiming that naming a street after Martin Luther King is bad for business. The following is a list of streets named after King in the United States. The "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial highway" includes various portions: Also: As of April 2021 Kansas City, Missouri is no longer the largest U.S. city without
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