{"id":9,"ordinal":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:31:23","content_modified":"2026-08-19 21:28:45","featured":0,"title":"African American Landmarks","creator":"RHDC","description":"<p>Many Raleigh landmarks reflect the achievement, culture, and struggle of the city’s African American population. The oldest date to the nineteenth century. Estey Hall, built in 1874 at Shaw University, is the country’s first building erected for the higher education of African American women. Tupper Memorial Baptist Church was built in 1912, but it continued the mission of a congregation established in 1866. St. Augustine’s College also opened around that time to train African American teachers. These institutions became a magnet, drawing the formerly enslaved to Raleigh and offering them support and opportunity amid great instability. \r\n\r\nAfrican American communities grew in southeast Raleigh, surrounding Shaw, St. Augustine’s, and Tupper Memorial. West of town were Method and Oberlin. The rural appearance of the John T. and Mary Turner House on Oberlin Road reflects the nature of the area around 1900. Oberlin Cemetery holds the remains of many early residents.\r\n\r\nIn the 1890s, students built the granite St. Augustine’s Chapel, now the oldest building on campus. Latta University opened in Oberlin, offering coeducational instruction to children sixteen and younger. The buildings burned but the site is landmarked for its archaeological potential. Later schools include the Berry O’Kelly School, the Catholic St. Monica’s, and Washington Graded and High School. \r\n\r\nMany black-owned businesses in Raleigh are represented by buildings fronting E. Hargett Street, which became the black business district in the many years of segregation in the twentieth century. The Delany Building, the Raleigh Furniture Building, and even the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Building held commercial and office space. The Masonic Temple Building on S. Blount Street was also a center of the African American community in Raleigh.  \r\n\r\nRecreational facilities were segregated as well, and blacks from all over the state traveled to Raleigh to visit Chavis Park, built by the WPA during the Depression of the 1930s. It mimicked Pullen Park, even down to the Chavis Park Carousel, a beautiful ca. 1913 merry-go-round with hand-painted decoration.\r\n\r\nWhile many landmarks speak to the terrible history of segregation, a number also reveal the civil rights movement and its successes. Landmarked houses from the earliest years of the twentieth century were the homes of Raleigh’s first political and Civil Rights leaders. Decades later, public-school integration began in Raleigh in 1960 at Murphey School on N. Person Street. Exploring Raleigh’s African American-related landmarks reveals the people and places that contributed to Raleigh’s rich history.</p>","postscript_text":"","tour_img":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/ccde2a48a0b5fd49ba690df09842674d.jpg","items":[{"id":192,"title":"William A. 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