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SLIDESHOW: New International African American Museum delves deep into Black history and culture in U.S.
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Inside the entrance of the International African America Museum are four, life-sized video screens showing films of aspects of hundreds of years of African American history. (Gwendolyn Glenn / WFAE)
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The exterior of the International African American Museum. (Gwendolyn Glenn / WFAE)
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The display shows the documented real names of Africans before they were changed after arriving in the U.S. (Gwendolyn Glenn / WFAE)
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One of the displays in the museum shows Bree Newsome removing the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina State House in 2015. (Gwendolyn Glenn / WFAE)
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Tennis rackets belonging Althea Gibson, the first African American to win a Grand Slam title. (Sarah Mobley Smith / WFAE)
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Another display in the museum features Althea Gibson, tennis great and first African American to win a Grand Slam title, also recorded an album. (Sarah Mobley Smith / WFAE)
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The Gullah Geechee Gallery. (Gwendolyn Glenn / WFAE)
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The Gullah Geechee Gallery gives a brief overview of the history and culture of the Gullah Geechee people with a focus on the Lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia. This gallery examines topics including activism, cultural practices and preservation
(Gwendolyn Glenn / WFAE)
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Esau Jenkins was a businessman, activist and preacher from Johns Island, South Carolina. When there was no transportation for Black children on the island to attend schools in Charleston, Jenkins had his own bus to take them to school. That bus is in the Smithsonian African American Museum. (Sarah Mobley Smith / WFAE)
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Jennifer Strayhorn and her husband look at a recreation of what Frazier Baker and his baby daughter might have looked like had they not been killed by a white mob after Baker was elected postmaster in Lake City, South Carolina. (Gwendolyn Glenn / WFAE)
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