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[[image - black and white photograph of Mrs. Penny Ruffin with Harry T. Chandis and George E. Jackson]]
[[caption]] A GRAND IDEA. Mrs. Penny Ruffin, owner of Penny's Sightseeing Tours in New York City, discusses "The American Experience into Black History" marketing materials with American Airlines sales executives (left to right) Harry T. Chandis, director of sales planning, and George E. Jackson, director of sales development and coordinator of the Black history marketing campaign. [[/caption]]


The traveler's New York City Black history itinerary includes Cooper Union, where a number of important abolitionists spoke. Among them were Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison and Henry Ward Beecher. Abraham Lincoln occupied the rostrum on Feb. 27, 1860.

Other Black history sights in New York City:

- Grace Episcopal Church, 802 Broadway, where on June 24, 1865, Rev. Samuel Davis Ferguson - the first Black bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church - was consecrated as the Missionary Bishop of Liberia.
- Martin Luther King Memorial, Amsterdam Avenue and 66th St.
- Booker T. Washington bust, Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York University, University Avenue at 181st St. The bust was created by Black sculptor Richmond Barthe in 1946.
- 369th Regiment Armory, 5th Avenue and 143rd St. During World War I, the then all-Black regiment received the Croix de Guerre from the Frencj government.
- Countee Cullen Branck, New York Public Library, 104 West 136th St. Named in honor of a major Black poet during the "Negro Renaissance" in literature, the library houses an extensive collection of Black materials.
- Schomburg Collection of Black art, literature and history, New York Public Library, 103 West 135th St.

American Airlines has frequent service to Albany, Rochester, and New York City. For further information, your travel agent is your guide to Black history.

[[image - black and white photograph of an African American couple looking at the Emancipation Statue]]
[[caption]] BREAKING THE BONDS OF SLAVERY. The Emancipation Statue, the oldest monument honoring President Lincoln in the nation's capital, was erected and paid for by former slaves. [[/caption]]

[[image - black and white photograph of Frederick Douglass Monument]]
[[caption]]  NOTED ABOLITIONIST REMEMBERED. The Frederick Douglass Monument highlights a Black history tour of Rochester. Born a slave in Maryland, Douglass escaped to freedom in 1838 and settled in Rochester in 1847. [[/caption]]

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