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Special Combination Tour

Reclaiming Black Spaces + A Union of Hope

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When: Saturday, February 8, 2025, - 23rd (Weekends Only) starting at 1:00PM

Event Location: 103 Orchard

Cost: $30 ($20 for Museum members)


Join us for a special two-for-one combination tour in honor of Black History Month! Start with our walking tour, Reclaiming Black Spaces, to visit five local sites of Black and African American history. Next, join our building tour, A Union of Hope: 1869, featuring the story of Joseph and Rachel Moore, a Black couple living in Lower Manhattan in the years after the Civil War.

Through these tours, you’ll encounter diverse stories of African-descended communities in Lower Manhattan, from the Black farmers of New Amsterdam and the 18th-century founders of the Second African Burial Ground to the little-known history of the 19th-century pre-Harlem Black tenement community and the 1960s Civil Rights activists working on the Lower East Side.

*Please Note: This program is a joint walking tour and building tour. It will span multiple floors of our historic tenement building and involve climbing multiple sets of stairs. For questions regarding accessibility for this event, email us at [email protected].

Can’t make it?

Join us on February 4th for a virtual run of A Union of Hope:1869! Explore the tenement home of Joseph and Rachel Moore; see spaces and objects up close as we discuss where the Moores lived, worked, played, and worshipped.

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