Tag: Black History

  • Walking Tour: Reclaiming Black Spaces

    Walking Tour: Reclaiming Black Spaces

    Organized by The Tenement Museum Explore stories of how Black New Yorkers shaped Lower Manhattan as they made homes, businesses, and communities there over the centuries. On this tour, you’ll […]

  • Wesley Augustus Williams

    Wesley Augustus Williams

    Wesley Augustus Williams (1897-1984) was born in Harlem to Lucy Metrash and  James Henry Williams, Chief of the Red Caps in Grand Central Terminal.  He’d been inspired as a boy […]