The Month of February is officially “Black History Month”. Join A1 Tours as we celebrate African American History in our nation’s capital, Washington DC. This month-long annual event gives us a great opportunity to honor the achievements and contributions of African Americans and other people of African descent in various fields and eras of U.S. history.

Black History Month also highlights and teaches the struggles, resistance, oppression, racism and discrimination that the African American Community have faced in the past and still are in current time. Black History Month initially began as a week-long event back in 1923 initiated by historian Carter G. Woodson. It was expanded to a month-long celebration in 1976 by President Gerald Ford. Since then, every U.S. president has officially designated February as Black History Month and endorsed a specific theme.

This captivating African American History celebration tour explores the U street corridor and other central locations related to culture and activism of civil and black rights in America. Washington DC is the place for some of black history’s most fascinating moments of the civil rights movement. You will learn of history past & present from the African American perspective and much more.

Sites may include:
Emancipation Statue, Howard Theatre & Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, U-Street.

Note: Actual stops are based on time and at the guide’s discretion.

After the African American History tour in Washington DC, you will visit National Museum of African American History & Culture.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, sometimes referred it as the “Blacksonian”, is a Smithsonian Institution Museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. This museum attracts thousands of visitors each year and is devoted to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture.

The museum visit will be self-guided and last approx. 1-2 hours.

Lunch can be purchased at the museum, alternatively guests are welcome to dine in any restaurant they wish upon completion of the tour. The vehicle will pick up near the museum upon return back.