AFRICAN/AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM

The African/African-American Historical Society and Museum grew out of a need to have more African-American input and involvement in preserving and presenting the history of Africans and African-American in the local community and beyond.

Two African American teachers, Hana Stith and Miles Edwards, started working with the Allen County Historical Museum in 1975.  They soon realized that the local museum had not preserved African American History.  Therefore, if the history of local African Americans was to be collected, preserved and displayed, they must preserve it themselves.  After 25 years, enough history had been collected, to open an African-American Historical Museum in February 2000.