MAAP, a Web-based teaching tool uses video, audio, historic maps and other components to bring to life African American history in New York City
The Theodore Wright House located at 235 W.Broadway was part of the Underground Railroad at a time when slave catchers roamed the streets of the city and kidnapped runaways to return them south.
Samuel E. Cornish, a preacher (pictured) and John Brown Russwurm, a scholar, founded the nation's first black newspaper in 1827 -- Freedom's Journal.
The front page of Freedom's Journal